Here is the scenario:
1) I have a homepage.php that I use as a static page for my Front page. 2) I have a blog page that use the Default Template(index.php) as my static page for my Posts page.
I used two categories in my homepage.php that I want to exclude from blog page. So, I did this:
$catIDs = get_cat_ID( $cat_name='Featured' );
$catIDs .= ',-' . get_cat_ID( $cat_name='Services' );
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts("cat=-$catIDs&paged=$paged");
if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div <?php post_class(); ?>>
The content from those two categories don't show up on my blog page, but you can still navigate from post pagination.
Any tip here?