Figured I would share my little coding victory as far as WordPress goes, here.
I have a blog setup with multiple authors. I have two categories called “Front Page” and “Personal Page”. I wanted users to be able to post on the front page, but also have it so that some posts only appeared on their own pages (index.php?author=x type of links).
With information gathered from this article and ones related, I cam up with this:
if (!isset($author)) {
$cat = "X";
} else {
$cat = "X";
}