Tag: WordPress category ID

A typical WordPress theme will provide only one set of categories wherein all categories are already listed. Suppose you want two or more sets of categories in two separate lists, there are two ways you can modify your WordPress theme to do just that.

Create a special category and insert a code in the functions.php of your theme to prevent some posts from appearing in your homepage. Works only if you configured your homepage as list of latest posts and not as static page.

The categories where a particular post belongs are usually listed somewhere in the post page, usually under the post title. For administrative or some other reasons, you want to assign posts to a particular category but you do not want your site visitors to see this category. This is how you prevent one or more category from showing up in the post page.

The category list is a useful navigation that normallly comes with a WordPress theme and can usually be found at the sidebar. For a variety of reasons, you might want to prevent some categories from showing in this list while they remain accessible through the dashboard or by manually typing the URL.

The category ID is a unique number assigned by WordPress to each category. Knowing the ID of a category can be useful in certain WordPress tweaks that involves indicating specific category or categories.