Single category on home page without using a plugin?

[Jak]

I would like to have the home page only show posts from one category, with all posts on another page. I have done this with other themes using the solution offered on the WP forum of adding

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<?php query_posts($query_string . '&cat=8'); ?>

before 'the loop' in index.php. It worked beautifully!

I'm now setting up a new blog with the Suffusion theme (and loving it!) and would like to do this again, however I can't seem to locate the 'the loop'.

I've searched the Aquoid forum and all the results I could find about this recommend using a plugin to exclude all other categories. I prefer the clean approach of simply adding one line of code and would rather avoid plugins where not absolutely mandatory. Any suggestions on where I could find 'the loop' in the Suffusion theme or where to add the line of code?

[Jak]

Well, that just figures! found it, in the index.php file...

Line 19, right after

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<?php suffusion_before_begin_content(); ?>
      <div id="content" class="hfeed">

Spent a couple of hours trying to solve this, posted here, then almost immediately found it...
/me slaps forehead

Cheers!

RESOLVED

[mcfilmmakers]

Could you explain what exactly you did?

I'm looking to exclude 2 categories from showing up on the index page, but I want to do this from the functions file rather than create a child index page. Is this possible?

[sayontan]

I'm looking to exclude 2 categories from showing up on the index page, but I want to do this from the functions file rather than create a child index page. Is this possible?

Use a plugin like "Simply Exclude"