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# arickmann

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 *   Forum: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/)
   
   In reply to: [Ideas Forum/Communication Channels](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ideas-forumcommunication-channels/)
 *  [arickmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arickmann/)
 * (@arickmann)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ideas-forumcommunication-channels/#post-1073042)
 * 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/](http://www.wp-fun.co.uk/2009/05/09/what-wordpress-workflow-needs/)
 *   Forum: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/)
   
   In reply to: [Ideas Forum/Communication Channels](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ideas-forumcommunication-channels/)
 *  [arickmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arickmann/)
 * (@arickmann)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ideas-forumcommunication-channels/#post-1073039)
 * I think there is a lot of great work going on in blogs that gets missed. A lot
   of it from people who feel as though they have been ignored for some time.
 * Perhaps if mechanisms existed for blog authors to use polls on their own blogs
   that would feedback to wp.org and rank there it might be possible to capture 
   the much wider community instead of just those people that want to visit WordPress
   itself.
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [[help] how to show a REAL single category ?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-how-to-show-a-real-single-category/)
 *  [arickmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arickmann/)
 * (@arickmann)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-how-to-show-a-real-single-category/#post-740902)
 * 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.
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [[help] how to show a REAL single category ?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-how-to-show-a-real-single-category/)
 *  [arickmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arickmann/)
 * (@arickmann)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-how-to-show-a-real-single-category/#post-740901)
 * Try something like this inside the loop but before any of the post information:
 *     ```
       <?php
       $category_array = get_the_category();
   
       if ( count( $category_array ) > 1 ) { continue; }
       ?>
       ```
   

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