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1. Sweetroxie123
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   http://www.housepetality-petsitting.com/wordpress/testimonials

   I have created a testimonial page that consists of the posts in the category "testimonials." Each post has a picture of a dog client and the testimonial of the owner.

   So far so good. Problem is, I do not wish these to show up on the blog index page or any other blog-related page, (http://www.housepetality-petsitting.com/wordpress/roxies-blog) and they do.

   Right now, I have a Recent Posts widget on the home page (http://www.housepetality-petsitting.com/wordpress) and all it shows are the names of the dogs and these aren't really meant to be blog posts, I'm just using this format to showcase each testimonial. I'm doing it this way, because I tried at least 14 different gallery, slider, slideshow plugins and couldn't get any of them to show this content (or even to work).

   So, does a post always have to behave like a post?

2. vtxyzzy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Take a look at the WP Hide Post plugin.

3. Sweetroxie123
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I will. Thank you @vtxyzzy.

4. Sweetroxie123
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Just to follow up, this plugin did the job partially. It got rid of the unwanted latest posts on the home page, cleared the archives and the blog index of these posts. That's a big help.

   Unfortunately, it did nothing to hide the category itself from the Topic list on all blog pages. Also, when you click the link for that category/topic on that list it take you to the an archive for that category (http://housepetality-petsitting.com/wordpress/category/testimonials) but it is devoid of posts. So I'd like to hide any mention of testimonials in any category list.

   I just tried to do it by hand by editing the php in wp-includes>default-widgets.php following some instructions, but it not only didn't remove the category, but is also caused the posts to show up again on the home page, etc. I have fixed that, but can't seem to hide the category.

   Any other ideas?

5. vtxyzzy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   OK, if you are using WP 3.0 it might work to make the posts a custom type. That would not show up anywhere unless you specifically request it. I don't know what that would do to your Recent Posts plugin, though. You would probably need to replace that with some code of your own to select that post type.

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