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New semester and how to hide posts in Wordpress

As I mentioned below, I am not too busy right now but luckily my class has started, and I am really excited. In case I haven’t mentioned it, I am going to Davenport University part time for a BS in Computer Science. Davenport offers a couple of different specializations in the CS area, and I chose Web Development. With a little luck (well, it’s more about being able to pay for classes), I will graduate in April 2010.

Currently, I am taking CISP238 (Server Side Scripting I) and I am really interested to learn more about this. I have dabbled a little bit with Javascript, PHP and Perl, but never enough to really be able to code.

I assume by now, half of my translator colleagues fell asleep but I really want to write a little bit about school stuff here but straying to far off-topic and boring the non-geeks. Searching around, I found out that you can set up Wordpress so that certain categories don’t show up on the main page. The topic exists, you can select the category and see it, it just won’t get into your main page or in your feed. I really like that and I think it may be of interest for other people too. I got the instructions from Jangro 2.0. I had a hard time finding the category ID but it is explained on the Wordpress Support Forum.

Now, I just created a category called Davenport University and selected that to be hidden from main page and feed. I did a quick test and that actually worked, you may still see the first test topic since I created it first and then added the code to hide the category.

January 6, 2009 | Filed Under Personal 

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2 Responses to “New semester and how to hide posts in Wordpress”

  1. Michael on January 6th, 2009

    This method of selectively pulling or suppressing certain categories in your loops is an excellent tool for creating WP pages that don’t look like blogs but like “regular” websites while at the same time preserving the content management functionality of WP. Building websites (as opposed to blogs) with WP is a very useful way to keep clients happy when they want to be able to “change everything” themselves. Good luck with your server side scripting. I find it a great antidote to translation overload.

  2. Ryan Ginstrom on January 7th, 2009

    Good luck with the program! I’m also a translator/software developer, and I think it’s a great combination. (Well, my waistline might prefer combination translator/dog walker, but the rest of me likes it :)

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