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No, it’s not a New Age thing… I just realized that the front page of my blog is completely empty (hence this post) - why? Because I am hiding a couple of categories since they are displayed on pages (see book summaries and healing tools) and I don’t want to duplicate content. This hiding prevents them from showing up on the front page but WordPress still counts them. So, displaying 5 hidden posts means no posts are displayed on the front page! Sigh. Hopefully, someone with better coding ability will figure out a way to hide categories without this side-effect… (if you are someone like that, please post the solution to the comments!)
So, to read something, please use the list of recent posts, categories list to access the archive or check out the pages…
The technical details:
I am using the following code in my index.php file:
if (is_home()) if (in_category('99')) continue;
if (is_home()) if (in_category('4')) continue;
This posts all categories to the front page of the blog, except categories 4 (healing tools) and 99 (book summaries). I have tried other methods, such as the Ultimate Category Excluder. But they either re-ordered the posts - nicely displaying the oldest first - or didn’t do anything. I am suspecting that there is a WP 2.3.2 bug that reorders posts since the same effect happens when using the My Recent Posts widget. Using the “order_by” statement didn’t help (I might’ve used it in the wrong place, of course ;-).
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I am still trying to figure out how to get this blog to look and feel the way I want it to. I am playing around with themes and found a wonderful tutorial on how to create your own theme here:
Small Potato’s Tutorial. I find it amazingly generous of him to share all his knowledge! I did find out that it’s a lot of work… Plus, I am not sure yet if I have the artistic ability to create my own theme. So, for now, I am using one out of the box and tinker around like mad (including validating the front page, which wasn’t valid code…). But at least now I feel like I know a little bit more about what I am doing - thanks to SP’s tutorial…
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I am playing around with themes. I probably should concentrate on the content first but hey, themes are fun!
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After not having updated my Website in eons, I thought I’d change everything… Since I’ve gotten fascinated by blogs, I decided that this would be a good way to go. So, here it is, my very first blog entry! Yeah, yeah, nothing earth-shattering but, hey, you gotta start somewhere… I am planning on updating this site very soon - no later than the winter holidays - so, if you’re curious, please come back!
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