"latest,-<category>" doesnt work after upgrade from 1.3 to 1.5

[internetman]

Hello and thanks for this great software!

Up until today I’ve had the top menu exclude the moderator category on my front page. After upgrading to 1.5.0.beta2 this does not seem to work anymore. Any suggestions?

Cheers

[cpradio]

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Suppress category from Latest top menu only [1.5.x]

Continuing the discussion from 1.5.0.beta1 breaks category exclusion from homepage: Is there a way to exclude a category from the Latest top menu like we had in 1.4? I tried the new Suppress this category from the homepage option, but that seems to remove the category from /categories and the posts from that category still showed up under /latest. Ideally we’d still like to have the excluded category show up on our homepage (/categories), but excluded from /latest like we used to do with the…

By chance is your homepage set to a different page other than Latest too?

Also realize that if your homepage is Latest, you now need to go to the Moderator Category, choose Edit, and then Choose Suppress from Homepage.

[internetman]

My homepage is set to Latest. Suppress from Homepage did the trick, thanks
(I did search before I posted!)

[cpradio]

(I did search before I posted!)

No worries, I was a bit worried you had Categories set as the homepage, which is why I linked to the other one (had a few with that setup recently).