Thank you @jsonbecker! I appreciate your reply. You got me to go back and review some of the of the posts on this topic that I’d saved. In one of them, you described excluding certain categories from my homepage and archive. And my understanding is that I would need to edit these files in my custom theme to do that.
layouts/index.html
layouts/_default/list.archivehtml.html
But I can’t seem to find an example of having successfully done this with either Sumo or Tiny themes.
I appreciate your suggestion to explore microhooks, which seem promising. But I’m having more success slowly building my understanding of how the Hugo code works, which is not saying much I guess.