Wants to exclude certain categories from certain pages

Pages don’t necessarily display posts, but it is possible your theme is designed to show posts in Pages. If that is so, with the help of the Template Hierarchy article, determine what Template is displaying your Pages, then you may need to add some code (e.g. query_posts()) to exclude categories.

Example

<?php
query_posts($query_string . '&cat=-5');
?>

Note the -5 says exclude category id 5.

Thanks for your reply. I realize that I was a little short with the info.

Anyway, I solved it in another way, using slayers custom widget and the widget that will let you add php straight into widgets.

the widget that will let you add php straight into widgets

I’d guess you are talking about Otto’s php code widget.

Thanks for the feedback–will mark this resolved.

MichaelH. I’m trying to restrict my posts page from showing category 5 posts. Where do I place the code you mentioned above in the page template I made for this particular page?

Your help is much appreciated.

<?php
query_posts($query_string . '&cat=-5');
>

My code:

<?php
/*
Template Name: press
*/
?>

<?php
/**
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Default_Theme
 */

get_header(); ?>

	<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn" role="main">

		<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
		<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
			<div class="entry">
				<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page &raquo;</p>'); ?>

				<?php wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ', 'after' => '</p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?>

			</div>
		</div>
		<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
	<?php edit_post_link('Edit this entry.', '<p>', '</p>'); ?>
	</div>

<?php include ('sidebar1.php'); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Thanks
Tim