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Argh.

Never mind… I replaced “localhost” with my domain name and it worked like the proverbial charm.

Hi Bryan — I have no idea how to help you, but I need an answer to the same question. Bump!

That plugin is perfect — never even thought to look for one. Thank you!

Okay. For future generations (heh), I’ve managed to do what I need to do — thanks to everyone’s advice — by doing this:

1) arranging all of my portfolio-related posts as children of the parent Portfolio category — which happens to be “4”.

2) putting this line of code into the loop in “index.php”:
<?php if (in_category('4')) continue; ?>

3) using “wp_list_categories” to call for my Portfolio category posts from “header.php”

4) creating a custom template for the Portfolio category posts. The category for these is “4”, so my category template is named “category-4.php”. This file calls for a custom sidebar that shows appropriate links via an “include TEMPLATEPATH” function.

5) All other categories appear as normal on my “blog” Page, which reaches for the normal “category.php” file when necessary to display the various categories.

There are still some odds and ends to clean up, but that was (I hope) the heaviest lifting..

Thanks to both of you — this gives me quite a bit to chew on, and chew I will.

I’m continually amazed by the generousity of people in this forum…

@doodlebee:

Thanks for the detailed response… you think you’re confused? ??

I did have that line of code in the wrong place, apparently — I put it into the page.php file, and then into a custom Page template called blogpage.php… and of course it didn’t work.

I have now put that code line into the index.php page, and it STILL doesn’t work…no categories end up being excluded… but now I’m starting to realize that I’ve had the wrong idea about what I’m trying to do all along.

I’d been operating under the assumption that it was possible to have a “flow” of posts appear on two different pages (or Pages), and separate which posts appeared on which pages by excluding post categories. In other words, all posts except for “portfolio”-categorized posts would appear on the blog page, and only the “portfolio”-categorized posts would appear on the portfolio Page.

If I read your comments correctly, this is not possible.

If I have that right, I’m all ears for any ideas you might have about how to accomplish what I’m trying to do….

@azaozz: yes, I put that line of code in the page template that’s used for the “blog”page, like this:

`<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<?php if (in_category(‘3′) && is_page(’10’)) continue; ?>`

And thanks for the “miniblog” link, but that doesn’t exactly work for me either.

I really just want to find out why this code isn’t working, even though the WP Gods of the Codex say it should.

I’m not sure if I was clear, or perhaps I’m misunderstanding your replies. Let me try again, with more detail:

I’ve created a page called “blog”. It uses a custom page template which invokes the Loop to display posts, the same way the home page in vanilla WP does. It’s working great, displaying everything.

Under “Reading Options” in the Admin section, I’ve given another page — “calyx design” — the designation of front page. It uses a different page template than “blog”, which does NOT include the call to display posts:

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>"

Now, on yet a third page (“portfolio”), I will call a specific category of posts by using “wp_list_categories” or something of that nature.

All I want to do is keep that “portfolio” category of posts from displaying on the “blog” page — which I am certain that should be able to do, thanks to this Codex article.

In the following code, page 10 is the “Blog” page, and category 3 is the “portfolio” category:

<?php if (in_category('3') && is_page('10')) continue; ?>

I took this right out of the Codex article, and can’t understand why it isn’t working — it seems as though it ought to apply perfectly.

Thanks for your help…

calyxdesign.com

I’m using WP to create a business website of which a blog will be a subsidiary part.

I’m generating posts to populate a WP page that will act as an easily updatable and categorizable portfolio — and I don’t want those “portfolio” posts showing up on the blog.

The plugins that I’ve found are all organized around excluding posts from the “homepage”, but I need the capability to tell specific page templates which category they are allowed to display. The WP Codex provides guidelines for accomplishing this, but the code is not working for me (see first post above).

https://www.calyxdesign.com

A little help here?

PodPress tip…

The number of files that can be inserted to a post is set very high in PodPress – 250 or so.

To change that number:

from wp-admin, podpress, general
Post Editing
Max Number of Media Files: (change this to 2)

Good luck!

I had the same problem, and there’s a simple fix. The number of files that can be inserted to a post is set very high in PodPress – 250 or so.

To change that number:

from wp-admin, podpress, general
Post Editing
Max Number of Media Files: (change this to 2)

Good luck!

I listed the browsers (see above), and thought the fact that I requested help at all made it clear that the “result” was no change in the problem. Apparently that wasn’t clear, sorry! ??

However! The good news is that I’ve resolved the problem. Though the first thing I did was go through carefully and test plugin by plugin, I found another post yesterday which referenced the PodPress plugin as a potential culprit. I dismissed this, because I’d already checked it… but then thought I ought to just give it another try. I don’t know why it didn’t work the first time, but that was it.

With just one question submitted to the PodPress folks, I had a fix. For future reference, here it is:

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If you’re experiencing slowness or hanging in the WP Admin section,
change the number of files that can be inserted to a post.

from wp-admin, podpress, general
Post Editing
Max Number of Media Files: (change this to 2)
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could you please clarify that question?

Mac Firefox 1.0.5.11, Safari 2.0.4

I mentioned in the previous post that it manifests the same symptoms in different browsers, so I’m not sure if the version would help.

I’m fairly certain that the problem is not caused by anything on my desktop.