Open the theme editor in wordpress dashboard (Appearence > Editor) and open home.php file. If you don’t see home.php file then click on index.php file. Then look for the start of the wordpress loop,

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

Now, just below this, add the line,

if (is_home()) if (in_category('7')) continue;

That’s it. Now the posts from category id 7 will not appear on homepage.

Note 1 - If you don’t know how to find the id of a category, then check this post.

Note 2 - If you are using a magazine theme or a theme that uses many loops on homepage, then make sure that you are editing the correct loop or you may break the whole site. If you are not sure about what you are doing, then let handyman do that dirty work.

First, log into your wordpress admin panel, then go to Posts > Categories. Now just hover your mouse over the category whose id you want to know, and look at your browser’s status bar at the same time. You’ll see the category id at the end. For instance, in the following snapshot, the category id is 7.

Enjoy!

Personally, I never use the visual editor. In the video tutorial below, I explain how to disable the wordpress visual editor from write panels,

Note – Learn basics of HTML before you disable the wordpress visual editor. If you want me to teach you enough HTML to handle the wordpress post/pages, then please contact me.