Hello @deslea,

Did you considered to use the parameter $cat to exclude your Sealed Section category?

Basically, you may add $cat = -categoryID to the stub file (index.php in your case), in order to exclude that category from the main stream (more info in this page: http://b2evolution.net/man/url-params).

Hi @mgsolipa

Thank you, that's exactly what I wanted! I'm trialling using it to limit the main stream to just my welcome message (which has a cat of its own) for now, but I can see a few different ways I can use it. Thanks so much!

Cheers - Deslea

Just a follow-up - I had to stop doing this because it made the Permalinks in the Sealed Section fail. So it's back to the drawing board!

I've got a fix for the permalinks problem. (It occurred to me later that this might be a skin-specific problem, too - I'm using Custom).

Set $cat = n; in index.php (where n is the id for the category to suppress). This suppresses the category in the main stream on index.php, as expected.

In _blog_main.inc.php, go to about line 137, just under:

	if( preg_match( $blog_baseuri_regexp, $ReqPath, $matches ) )
	{ // We have extra path info
		$path_string = $matches[2];

B2evolution has pulled out most of the originating URL for us so we can figure out whether this is a single post that should have the category setting put back. (I tried using $_SERVER earlier on but it didn't populate for some reason). Add the following:

// Fragment to allow a suppressed category for individual posts (otherwise permalinks in the suppressed category fail).

	$trim_ReqPath = str_replace("/blog/index.php", "", $ReqPath);  
            // Strips off the "real" URL before the slugs. You may need to edit the path.
	$url_trimmed = trim($trim_ReqPath, "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyv-"); 
            // Takes the part after index.php and strips off everything but the forward slashes
	IF ($url_trimmed == "/") { $url_type = "post"; } 
            // Checks for a single forward slash remaining- this suggests a post
	       // This is not foolproof - individual malformed category URLs may also be detected here
            // However, these are not affected by the $cat setting
	IF ($url_type == "post") {
	$cat = '';
            // Overrides the $cat = n that applied to index.php
	}