arickmann

Well, I, and many others often write “where next” posts. My last post (link at the bottom in case you want to remove it) was a discussion of Workflow matters that I hope get created by someone during the WLTC plugin competition. Of course it could just as easily be a suggestion to include that content within the core.

My general idea is that these sorts of posts could be accompanied by polls asking “do you think this is a good idea?” or perhaps some more complex questions. Registering the URL, or ID of that poll (I am assuming PollDaddy) with wp.org means the results can be gathered and displayed centrally irrespective of the blog it was originally on.

It would allow bloggers to engage their readers for the benefit of the community as a whole without asking people to visit other places and helps to identify topics where there is already some discussion around them. Developers who wanted to pick that up could find the list of popular ideas on wp.org and visit the original blog for the detail.

This was the only way I could really think of to keep the WordPress bloggers involved in the process as they do a lot of work promoting WordPress and ideas but it is that involvement that I think is important more than the poll concept itself.

Andrew

http://www.wp-fun.co.uk/2009/05/09/what-wordpress-workflow-needs/

Another option is to exclude all the other categories using query posts, so before the loop:

//get the requested category
$cat_id = array( get_query_var('cat') );

//get all the category ids
$cat_ids = get_all_category_ids();

//remove the one we have from the one we want
$cat_result_array = array_diff( $cat_ids, $cat_id );

//create a new query to remove what we don't need
query_posts( $query_string . "&cat=" . implode( ',-' , $cat_result_array ) );

There is probably a much easier way to do it, but these are the ones that spring to mind.