I need to hide a specific category from showing on home page latest listing. Any setting or adjustment in file that can fix that?
I thought i saw this earlier on forum but i am not able to find it on search.
Thanks

You should update function that prepare list and add there something like
$search->addCondition(DB_TABLE_PREFIX . 't_item.fk_i_category_id <> 123456');
($search & category id should be customized, maybe addItemCondition should be used instead)

@MB Themes,

Thanks for reply but did not get it to work.... Probably i placed the code in the wrong place 
Anyway i have another solution that works:

In functions.php search:
function eps_random_items($numItems = 10, $category = array(), $withPicture = false) {
Add:
$excluded_categories = array(62);
Change 62 to category nr you want to exclude and if more categories need to be excluded use comma eg: 62,122,255 etc

Then find:
  if($withPicture) {
Before that line put:
if(!empty($excluded_categories)) {
      $excluded_categories_str = implode(', ', $excluded_categories);
      $whe .= ' AND '.DB_TABLE_PREFIX.'t_item.fk_i_category_id NOT IN ('.$excluded_categories_str.') ';
  }

Save/upload file and relax 

Right in this phase it use pure SQL only

@MB Themes

So my solution is ok you think?
Just checking 

It is ok