henrylemmon

The code above will exclude category 17 from the query and retrieve only 3 posts. actually the first three posts in reverse chronological order excluding category 17, but the navigation links only load up the same three pages each time although they seem to be counting pages because the links appear appropriately based on the amount of posts and which post is supposedly being displayed.

I am using my front page as a static page and my blog is named blog. how can I run a conditional to check if the blog page is loaded so I can exclude one of the category’s from displaying in the blog page?

<?php
	if ( is_home()) {
	query_posts($query_string . '&cat=-17&posts_per_page=3' );
	}
?>

the above code is in the codex but it does not work for me, it just performs the same query over and over and offers me older posts -> and newer posts -> links and the older post link leads to the 404, mabye the query_string var is not storing the prev query info?

Thank You

Yea you are right, and if we could do anything to the image how would we target it in css say if we want to set a border,

so just add

`add_image_size( ‘small’, 75, 75, true);
add_image_size( ‘medium’, 280, 280, true);
add_image_size( ‘large’, 616, 462, true);`

into the functions.php and then

<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"
	<?php the_post_thumbnail('small')?>
</a>

into the loop and choose featured image in the edit post I think that may do what the plugin does.
Thank you.
henrylemmon>

Yes, would that be practical?

I allready have that done for the featured image I am talking about the image that would be placed into the body of the post. see code..
https://wordpress.pastebin.ca/2251622