Super-geeky progress report and a warning

by Jeremy on 21/9/2008

in Geeky

Spending a very pleasant afternoon building a new look and feel for the other place, and getting somewhere, slowly. First off, I managed to place one single post from one specific category in a sidebar. That’s good. But then, of course, I wanted to exclude that specific category from the main page. Not so easy. There are ways to do it within The Almighty WordPress Loop, but I tried a couple ond they just weren’t working for me and I couldn’t see why. Well, someone must have done a plug-in for that sort of thing, so I went looking.

Kim Woodbridge seems to have been down the exact same route as me a little while ago, and she found a plug-in, so who am I to argue?1 Anyway, I followed the link she thoughtfully gave to a plugin called Ultimate Category Excluder and found myself trapped in an anti-spam hell2.

Stuff that for a game of soldiers.

Instead I found a different plug-in called Advanced Category Excluder and it is the bee’s knees. ‘Nuff said.

Footnotes:
  1. By the way, I really like Kim’s design; very fine. []
  2. Which is why I’m not bothering to link to it []

2 comments

Kim Woodbridge September 23, 2008 at 11:42 am

Ahhh … finally found it. This one looks like it has even more functionality than the one I’ve been using. And, everyone can actually access it.

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Jeremy September 23, 2008 at 1:55 pm

@Kim Woodbridge – Glad to be of service. And I strongly believe that what goes around comes around, as we used to say.

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