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Moshu, right, I realized that the other day. So at the site admin tool, the data base is there, I see it. I might just delete it and start over and see if I can create it again, that should give me more control on the install that I’m used to (rather than using the screwing online thing).

What’s UTW? 🙂 Something I should become acquainted with?

Huh. Obviously, and I’ve even played with some of those tags before in trying to figure out some theme designs and such. I don’t know why that never occured to me.

Okay, so, I can use list_cats and get my auto generated list, using child_of to list only my writing pages (for example). That means I can use Page Templates or Category Templates and still get a list. Having used both to get the same looking page, are there any other reasons I should avoid Pages for this solution? Otherwise, it’s really not going to matter (so far as I can tell, now).

I’m with ryan (at least at the conceptual level): you really want to NOT use WP ‘Pages’ to implement this. Your easiest solution is to use categories themselves (writing as parent, haiku and exercises as children) for organization, then as needed make custom category templates where you want control over the category ‘views’ of posts.

Okay, question. I am using categories for organization. Haiku is cat=11, exercises will be cat=14, etc. I have now created a Page Template that queries cat=11, then formats the page. I have ALSO created a Category Template for cat=11 and formatted the page. I get the same results.

The difference I see is that using the Page Template method, I’ll get the page (in this case a child page) listed in the wp_list_pages. Using the Category Template method, they won’t show up there, and will instead need to be manually placed in some nav list (across the top or along the side) manually.

So, my question, are there Pros/Cons to one way over another? Seems the Page Template will work just fine, but a few above have said don’t go there.

But this will only allow me to exclude one category, right?

What I’m wanting to do is have a blog on the main page, full of whatever, multiple categories. But then I want to have categories that will show up ONLY on different pages (one for haiku, one for exercises, etc) but that will NOT show up on the main page.

So, I have a haiku cat=11, it show up ONLY on my haiku page that is templated to cat=11.

I have exercises cat=14, it shows up ONLY on my exercises page that is templated to cat=14.

The updates are already handled by the sidebar aside plugin, so that’s done.

I think I have a handle on how to get the pages to show only the posts of the categories I want (though there is still some question of whether or not Pages or Category Templates is the way to go). It’s now a matter of getting those specific categories to NOT show up on the index blog.