I’ve read through the articles, as well as played around with the snippet you posted but unfortunately the solution to my problem still eludes me. I imagine more than anything it’s an issue with my not being familiar enough with PHP yet.
Based on the articles, I’ve attempted using:
<?php $paged = get_query_var( 'paged' ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1; ?>
<?php $notnews = array(
'cat' => -5,
'paged' => $paged
);
<?php $query = new WP_Query( $notnews ); ?>
Which just breaks it, reporting a problem with the $query = new WP_Query line.
Full page code here: https://pastebin.com/0P4j9YFh
And I’ve also attempted using the code you pasted, Alchymyth (though I suspect I’ve used it incorrectly) and it didn’t work either. The page loads, however it doesn’t pull any of the articles.
Full code for that attempt can be found here: https://pastebin.com/TKmaXvX5
I’m sure the solution is right in front of me but I’m just not seeing it.
Thanks for all your help!