Michael Clark

I would love to simul-tweet as I liveblog on my WP site. As it is now, I’ll be doing both in parallel, by hand, for an event I’m covering this weekend.

Hi, I’m sorry, but I’ve been swamped and didn’t have time to work on this over the weekend. I’m heading out for a road trip, so can’t work on it until Friday. What I was going to try to do is hand-craft the query to exclude and include the correct categories in the template for each page. So that would work for your site, but wouldn’t be a plugin.

I’m sorry for the delay, Mike

Try to figure out which file in your theme is the one for your pages. I’d guess it’s page.php. What you can do is add a word, like your name, to the file, probably immediately after this code:

<div id="content">

So you’d end up with something like:
<div id="content">MIKE-WAS-HERE

Then save your change, and reload the news-tem page. If your phrase appears near the top of the page, that is probably the template file that is used to build that page.

So you only have two categories right now, news and mindset. On the Settings > Category Exclusion, you have “news” checked in the “Exclude from Main Page?” column, correct?

Is the template for the news-tem page “Default template”? It’s on the right of the page editor, in the Page Attributes box.

What category number is mindset? Posts > Categories then put your mouse on the name of the category. The URL should appear at the bottom of your browser window. Look for tag_ID= The number after the equal is the category number.

You’re not answering my question. How are posts appearing on that page (news-tem)? Are you using a plugin, or is the theme doing it? How posts are appearing will affect my answer to how to get it to work. As currently implemented, everything is working correctly, that is, everything is doing what it is told. Wee just need to figure out where to tweak to get what you want.

How are you putting posts on a page? A WordPress “Page” is generally fairly static information, such as your “Work” or “Get in touch” page. A page is created and edited through the admin area, probably at http://www.eclipse-experience.com/subdirectory/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page . I’d guess your theme may be showing posts on your page? I need to know how the posts are being added to your Page so I can figure out where the problem is.

For now, simply rename the “News” page to something else (even news-temporary would be ok) and see if what you’re trying to do starts to work. But I think the issue is probably going to be how your theme is adding posts to the page.

I’m confused by your description of the problem. Can you give the site’s URL? Do you have a separate blog page and home page?