# Exclude the particular categories **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [June 11, 2017, 11:24am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/exclude-the-particular-categories/638 "2017-06-11T11:24:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yashumittal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/yashumittal/32/1260_2.png) [@yashumittal](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/yashumittal)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 11:24am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/exclude-the-particular-categories/638/1 "2017-06-11T11:24:36Z")
Can we exclude the particular posts categories using `if` or `else` statement? ---
**Author:** ![rdyar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/rdyar/32/710_2.png) [@rdyar](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/rdyar)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 3:38pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/exclude-the-particular-categories/638/2 "2017-06-11T15:38:31Z")
Not real clear what you mean. First google result for `jekyll exclude category`: [http://jekyllsnippets.com/excluding-posts-by-category/](http://jekyllsnippets.com/excluding-posts-by-category/) ---
**Author:** ![Rien](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/rien/32/34_2.png) [@Rien](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/Rien)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 5:21pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/exclude-the-particular-categories/638/3 "2017-06-11T17:21:03Z")
Do you mean to exclude posts completely from the site? Or just in specific places.? We can use if-else to filter specifically, that will work. So if you want to exclude a post somewhere based on the category, you can use that. But as a post may specify multiple categories you will probably need some array operations or a for-loop as well. ---
**Author:** ![yashumittal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/yashumittal/32/1260_2.png) [@yashumittal](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/yashumittal)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/exclude-the-particular-categories/638/4 "2017-06-11T18:31:41Z")
For example: **We have four different categories: A, B, C, D** On the homepage we see the blog posts from all 4 categories and it get listes according to the date. Right? I want that from that list of blog posts on homepage, it should not show the blog posts of D category. Can that be possible? ---
**Author:** ![Rien](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/rien/32/34_2.png) [@Rien](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/Rien)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/exclude-the-particular-categories/638/5 "2017-06-11T18:49:57Z")
Yes, but you will have to modify the theme. Somebody correct me if I am wrong, but I do not think that this is supported out of the box. Are you using minima? (The default theme)? ---
**Author:** ![yashumittal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/yashumittal/32/1260_2.png) [@yashumittal](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/yashumittal)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 6:54pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/exclude-the-particular-categories/638/6 "2017-06-11T18:54:02Z")
> [@Rien](#): > > Yes, but you will have to modify the theme. I think you didn’t got my point. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Rien](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/rien/32/34_2.png) [@Rien](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/Rien)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 7:03pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/exclude-the-particular-categories/638/7 "2017-06-11T19:03:57Z")
Modifying a theme is not so difficult. But you do need some html/css and possibly programming experience. ---
**Author:** ![ginfuru](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/ginfuru/32/773_2.png) [@ginfuru](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/ginfuru)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 1:48am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/exclude-the-particular-categories/638/8 "2017-06-14T01:48:53Z")
@yashumittal you can use the snippet example that @rdyar provided just change out the operator `{% if post.category != "D" %}`