{"id":239631,"date":"2005-07-27T14:55:09","date_gmt":"2005-07-27T14:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/adding-hidden-categories\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T20:01:41","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T20:01:41","slug":"adding-hidden-categories","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/adding-hidden-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding Hidden Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<br \/>\nI&#8217;d like to be able to designate a category as Hidden.  This would work as Private in that it would never show up in a normal loop, or show up in the archive listing or even be counted&#8230;..BUT I want to be able to link to the content in the post elsewhere on the site.   Marking it as private won&#8217;t work because it  still won&#8217;t show up unless they are logged in.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never done any plugin writing and really don&#8217;t know where I would start.  it seems like a pretty simple thing to do.  I know PHP quite well.  <\/p>\n<p>Any suggestions ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-239631","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-hidden"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/239631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/239631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}