yazmincoveney

I am also trying to modify my functions.php in a child theme. Ultimately I want to exclude specific categories from my blog home page. I am using this code, but it doesn’t seem to do anything.

<?php
function exclude_category($query) {
if ( $query->is_home ) {
$query->set('cat', '-10 -11 -12');
}
return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category');
?>

That did it!

Thank you, thank you!!

I forgot the above did not work.

Not sure if I understood correctly, but in my css I added (my custom template page is called main.php)

`.page-template-main #main {
clear: both;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 40px 0 0 0;
background-image:url(images/home_bg.jpg);
}`

Then in the custom template page, I left the code:

`<?php
/*
Template Name: Main Page
*/

get_header(‘main’); ?>

<div id=”container”>
<div id=”content” role=”main”>

<?php if ( have_posts() ) while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

<div id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>” <?php post_class(); ?>>
<?php if ( is_front_page() ) { ?>
<h2 class=”entry-title”><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<?php } else { ?>
<h1 class=”entry-title”><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<?php } ?>

<div class=”entry-content”>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php wp_link_pages( array( ‘before’ => ‘<div class=”page-link”>’ . __( ‘Pages:’, ‘twentyten’ ), ‘after’ => ‘</div>’ ) ); ?>
<?php edit_post_link( __( ‘Edit’, ‘twentyten’ ), ‘<span class=”edit-link”>’, ‘</span>’ ); ?>
</div><!– .entry-content –>
</div><!– #post-## –>

<?php endwhile; ?>

</div><!– #content –>
</div><!– #container –>

<?php get_footer(); ?>`

I should add that the above suggestion added the background to all the pages. Not just the home page.

That put the background behind the text not in the whole content area.

The site I am working on is not published, but here is a mock up of what I am trying to do. This is a large jpg and not a WP site: https://www.zupababy.com/hl/home_navy.htm

DanielPh, did you ever get this figured out? I tried the same thing, as I am trying to customize my index.php page. I expected the page to break when I removed the header and footer but nothing happened.