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1. martin
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #

   I'm having the exact same problem and I have found no solution so far. Does any one know how to fix this issue?

2. Ryan Boren
   WordPress Dev
   Posted 8 years ago #

   From wp-blog-header.php:
   // Note: if we have a negative, we ignore all the positives. It must
   // always mean 'everything /except/ this one'. We should be able to do
   // multiple negatives but we don't :-(
   This would be a nice little project for an enterprising contributor.

3. davidchait
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #

   I found I needed to use the hidden-category stuff to really do what I wanted to do. It'd be easy to take that another step and have it hidden-from-frontpage as an option.
   -d

4. AlvinLee
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #

   Can't you exclude your categories by including only the ones you want? For example you wanted to exclude categories 8 and 9 and your code using $cat= -8, -9 doesn't work because it only sees the first negative number. Then could this solution work:
   $cat = 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,10,11,12 . Just a thought, since once can exclude by including everything else.

5. dshupp
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #

   I've found that when I use this category inclusion/exclusion at all, wordpress forgets about the posts per page variable. Is there a fix for this? Am I supposed to do something besides add $cat = "xxx"; to my index.php for this to work as expected?

6. danes75
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #

   I can't get the script to work at all. Its implemented exactly as stated in both the myhacks.php and the admin section of the site, but when i go to the directory http://www.homocoit.us/hc ... nothing. still lists all the categories. There's not even any error message so I can try and figure out what the problem is.

7. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 7 years ago #

   I notice that it forget the post per page variable to. I am having the same problem myself. Someone please find a fix.

8. TechGnome
   Moderator
   Posted 7 years ago #

   danes - it goes in the top of index.php, not in the admin, nor in the my-hacks.php files. Also, are you trying to get it to hide the category link itself? Or posts from that category? Setting $cat (which should only be done when it isn't already set) only affects the posts displayed on the main page. NOTE: You do realize that you don't have a default CSS set? I get the raw HTML in all it's gorey glory with no styling what so ever.
   I used to have the same problem of WP forgetting the posts-per-page setting, but since I've moved to Mingus I haven't had that problem, so I don't know what's up with that. Except that based on your source here, I see that it looks like hte 1.0.1 version of WP is running.
   TG

9. paperlion
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   There's a plug-in for category exclusions and more (asides, etc.). Supposed to work with 1.5 too. (It's the one by Ryan Baron - 'Janitor Prime'? The other one by Kitty doesn't work on the new revision.

   WP links to it are down though. Found it here:

   http://www.coldforged.org/archives/2004/11/15/wordpress-asides-coldforged-style/

   http://flickr.com/groups_topic.gne?id=6421#comment46452

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