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Matt,
Care to share the secret?
http://photomatt.net/archives/category/asides/

here's one way:
http://wordpress.org/support/3/4801

Thanks!

matt uses a function in 1.2 called in_category or something, so you may want to look into the code.

Even nicer....don't need those extra functions, just simply pass the ID of the category and it's done. Thanks again!

http://photomatt.net/archives/2004/05/19/asides/
Have fun.

Now, is there any way, when reading your weblog, to view all categories except asides?

So for the title of the post would you just put in an Html link or just the URL or...?

The Post title is still the same idea as a regular post, but in this instance it will be the text that is a link to whatever URL you are going to use...and then you use either the excerpt or content fields for the URL, depending on your implementation.

can you give an example? (sorry finals is stressing me out and it's hard for me to comprehend the simpliest comments)
This is what I have in my head of what you said:
Title: Check this out
Excerpt: http://www.google.com
Output
Date Author
Check this out linked to google
If that is the case, how did you get it so you have that Link It on your site?

Allusion, I followed your well written instructions and it almost worked for me, but unlike hand grenades and horsehoes, close don't count. I am getting a database error to check syntax near "AND comment_approved = 1..." Any thoughts?

Ah, yes. Wish I had seen your post before I jumped back in the index file ;-). You got me going in the right direction and 'twas a slight error in placement which caused the problem.

I've replaced the_content_rss('', 0, ''); with echo wptexturize($post->post_content); (from Matt's implementation) and it works much nicer.

I did made my own hack of the asides, and I modified the recent_posts function to take these asides into account.
I did it with an extra db call, but I think the code looks nicer :)
If you're interested, take a look here

Since I get a lot of visitors coming from this post, it's probably a good thing to know that I now use Kitten's show_categories plugin.
Works like a charm.

<li id="quicklinks">
<?php echo show_category_posts('89','','','','6'); ?>