Make specific categories not appear on main page?

Is there a way to make it so that specific categories do no appear on my homepage? I currently have 1 product and I want to add a new one. But I do not want the new product to appear on the homepage.

Thanks
Corey
http://www.toolsforchrist.com

You could set the field:
products_date_added

in the table:
products

to be older than the dates you have set to be considered New Products in the Configuration ... Maxium Values for:

New Product Listing - Limited to ...
Limit the New Product Listing to
0= All Products
1= Current Month
7= 7 Days
14= 14 Days
30= 30 Days
60= 60 Days
90= 90 Days
120= 120 Days

This could be done either via phpMyAdmin or via your Zen Cart Admin in the Tools ... Install SQL Patches ... with the SQL statement such as:

UPDATE products SET products_date_added = '2012-10-01 00:00:00' WHERE master_categories_id = XX;

where XX is the master_categories_id of the Products that you do not want to show and the date for the products_date_added is in the format of:
YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS

that would be older than your setting on what is a New Product ...

Or, if you do want the real products_date_added to be maintained on each Product but block these Products from displaying, you could customize the code for the SQL statements to ignore Products from that categories_id based on the master_categories_id ...

Maybe I can accomplish this differently if I tell you what I am doing. I am trying to have a place to buy gift certificates. I would like to just have an EZ page created that links directly to the page that you can buy them. Rather than having a category displayed. Is there something that can be done for this?

Thanks for the response.

I figured something out. I was able to do this in the admin setting by turning off the category but still having the products turned on. I didnt know this could be done. So now this category does not have a page, but I can still link to the product page.