How to hide posts from homepage that are on WP Show Posts Pro

Hi there,

this stack overflow provides the PHP functions to offset the first 4 posts in the blog:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37636667/wordpress-exclude-first-4-post-from-query/37638758#37638758

Hi David,

If I add that function to my child functions I get a weird homepage: the 4 posts shown in WP Show Posts Pro (via tag or category because they are not the 4 last posts, they are the 4 last post with a specific tag or category) get shown in the lasts posts too and if someone clicks on "load more" posts on home page get the same posts every time he or she clicks on "load more".

Ok, I got resolved this with this function:

add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'excludeCat');
function excludeCat($query) {
      if ( $query->is_home ) {
            $query->set('cat', '-3936');
      }
      return $query;
}

If I want to change this function to exclude a tag it must be like this?:

add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'excludeTag');
function excludeCat($query) {
      if ( $query->is_home ) {
            $query->set('tag', 'XXX');
      }
      return $query;
}

aah ok - yes that query looks correct for Tags.

Great. Thanks!

Glad to be of help