As you might know, even from the news, there was a long weekend in Hungary because of our National Memorial Holiday for the Revolution in 1956. So for these days I was not haunting bugs, just resting and stuff.
But today I’ll came back to work, and also I’ve picked up the plugin developement as well.
For the last hour I was debuging together with Joakim, who I also send a big thank you. Not just for reporting a bug, but creating a test environment, that I can reproduce the bug.
So, another bugfix release is out.
Eat it, until it’s hot 
October 24th 2007 Releases
October 29th, 2007 at 00:53
Do you think it’s possible to fix the display issue on the dashboard panel when using Tiger Style Administration 3.0?
The plugin can be found here:
http://orderedlist.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-tiger-administration/
Basically it causes the lists to scrunch up on the right. Clearing out tiger.css will fix the problem, so it is their fault — but most plugins still display fine. Perhaps there’s a way to rewrite how you do your category lists to be compatible.
October 29th, 2007 at 09:10
Thank you for this bugreport.
I’ll try to fix this, in the next release
October 30th, 2007 at 22:39
Hi Djzone,
I read in your readme.txt :
= If I post in one category that is hidden, and another one as well, which is not. What will happen? Then, your post won’t be hidden. This plugin only hides your post, if all of the defined categories selected for exclusion.
I was not so happy reading this, while i’m looking for a plugin thats allows me to set an “exclude” category (originally from homepage, your plugin is more extensive) but lets me organize my content in categories freely.
So, I tried to check and … surprise. I chose two categories for my test post, one “home-hidden” and the other one “home-visible” and the post didn’t show on my home page …
What have’nt I understood ? I’m running Wordpress 2.3
Very useful plugin though. I was using semi-opt-in but it doesn’t work anymore with 2.3.
Thanks for your time.F.
October 30th, 2007 at 23:17
So, I’m answering to myself. This behaviour (see previous comment) happens only with the … uncategorized … category. So, I have to look further for my plugin, yours is working exactly like you described it … ;o)
October 31st, 2007 at 10:43
Ouranos, the original idea was to create some kinds of subpages of the blog.
I mean each subpage is unique category.
Your are right, my plugin can’t handle multiple categories, but I’m planing to add support for that
October 31st, 2007 at 11:21
Hi DJZoNe!
I just came across your pluigin and it is exactly the plugin that I’m looking for! but the problem that I’m getting is that it does not work together with my theme. I’m using i3theme… the same theme that my website is using
My website is boontan.net as you can see… when I activate it, ACE screws up my theme…
November 1st, 2007 at 00:30
*****DJ said : “Ouranos, the original idea was to create some kinds of subpages of the blog. I mean each subpage is unique category. Your are right, my plugin can’t handle multiple categories, but I’m planing to add support for that”*********
That would be great ! I was looking for a plugin to exclude posts from the homepage (without limiting the category management for the post) and didn’t find anything working fine with wp 2.3 (I found some old plugins). I think this feature would really be loved by those who wants something like a CMS-like control on their homepage. With that kind of feature and something like wp-sticky which give you control of your post positions, It would be really easy. Though, i don’t understand why it’s not a native feature of good blog scripts. I mean, i understand historical reasons, but a lot of people who could have been attracted by a good blog choose a CMS script because of this lack of control.
Aloha.F.
November 1st, 2007 at 11:46
DJZoNe,
I just double checked it, my theme is no longer screwed up, the only problem left is that when I activate the plugin, My homepage showed the first post I ever made on the blog not on the most recent post… So how do I go around with this?
November 1st, 2007 at 15:17
I’m having a similar problem with the “recent posts” widget in my category template page. The plugin is causing it to display the oldest posts first. It also seems to have corrupted my rss feed, causing it to flag the oldest posts as new. Any idea why that’s happening?
November 1st, 2007 at 18:52
I’ll have to investigate it.
To be honest I’m using a self-patched version of get recent comments, maybe that’s why I’m not having those issue.
Please drop me a mail to djz [at] djz dot hu with the list of plugins you use, the database engine version you have (mysql 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.1).
Thank you guys, for reporting
November 4th, 2007 at 06:07
Thanks DjZoNe! After I found your fantastic plug-in, It was necessary for me to maintain only one blog instead of two!
But, just only one problem. When a reader browses one post at a time (essentially using single.php) he encounters posts in the ‘hidden’ category also. I am using Zeke 2-column theme.
Thanks in advance for your advice.
November 14th, 2007 at 22:52
I have installed this version of the plug-in and I am having problems. When I go to the ACE Dashboard, not all of my categories show, so I can’t hide some of them. Do you know what the problem is?
November 18th, 2007 at 21:40
Hi there! Thank you so much for this plugin! I searched almost an hour to find an easy to use plugin like this which is compatible with WP 2.3!
November 30th, 2007 at 04:03
nice!
December 6th, 2007 at 01:33
Same problem as root88:
Some of my categories are not displayed in ACE dashboard.
Any help or suggestion?
Ty for this great plugin.
December 11th, 2007 at 05:11
# Hernan Silva Says:
December 6th, 2007 at 1:33 am
Some of my categories are not displayed in ACE dashboard.
Any help or suggestion?
====I found it, too!
December 16th, 2007 at 22:39
I have another bug, which occurs with wp 2.3.1 and your plugin 1.06 and dev version 1.1
if you go to my testpage: http://pacura.ru click on the latest post, then you will see that you can click on next post, and you will get to see a post, which is in the only category allowed on the frontpage, and only in that category, but it is still not displayed on the homepage…
I have no clue why… btw. it is the only post I made after activating your plugin, the other psots were made before…
December 17th, 2007 at 00:02
oh, and version 1.1 does not work with plugins that change the backend admin menu, i.e. http://www.stuff.yellowswordfish.com/admin-drop-down-menus/
December 17th, 2007 at 02:49
Wow
Thank you for these reports ovidiu
The navigation bug exists from the begining.
I’ll try to find a solution, but it looks hard right now.
I’ll give a further explanation for that.
December 17th, 2007 at 10:10
it also could be slug/name related, I remembered, that the category is called Miscellaneous but the slug is blog…
ACE Dashboard shows me Miscellaneous not blog, it seems to see the ncategroy name… strange though that all old posts appear !?
December 19th, 2007 at 10:03
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January 13th, 2008 at 20:02
Hi DjZoNe, First, Great plugin! Second, I was wondering if I could exclude categories in my head.php on the subnav? I added this (‘is_header’=>’Header’) to the ACE plugin code and it shows up on ACE Dashboard but when I select categories from the list it doesn’t seem to work.
Any help would be very appreciated!
Thanks
Marco
January 18th, 2008 at 06:24
Can this check to see if the user is logged in to the site and if so show the category, if not send them to the home page?
January 25th, 2008 at 19:11
very nice article
January 27th, 2008 at 05:21
I have been looking for “this plugin” for a very long time. Outstanding effort.
January 28th, 2008 at 23:19
I have noticed that this does not exclude the category from the categories list, I am using a widgitized sidebar, is there anyway around this?
February 3rd, 2008 at 17:24
Robert, thank you for the idea, I’ll try to implent it to the next version
February 5th, 2008 at 12:03
Good job on the plugin, it does what we hard-coded templates with if/else calls beforehand. I have one question though – while it hides certain posts from being shown, it doesn’t seem to hide the year-list, for example I’ve set my archive to only show one folder and it has posts from 2007 and 2008. There are also some other posts from 2005. I then have a menu made up with:
and get 2008, 2007 and 2005. Do you know if there’s a way to only show the years for the categories one sets with your plugin? Or alternatively how one would hardcode it to only show the years for posts from a specific category based on ID?
Thanks, Karl
February 5th, 2008 at 12:45
Well, after having spent part of the day searching, trawling through Google, I actually managed to find a plugin which allows you to add a category variable for the wp_get_categories tag.
http://kwebble.com/blog/2007_08_15/archives_for_a_category
This allows you to set which categories to show.
February 5th, 2008 at 12:47
Sorry for the multiple posts, but above it was meant to say wp_get_archives and not wp_get_categories.
February 28th, 2008 at 23:23
Sorry for asking this, but can is there is a way of making it non excluyent XD
for example I want that in the front page the only category shown to be news. Because I can’t find a ood plug in and I’m not experienced enough top be touching the code by myself.
Thanks
March 6th, 2008 at 06:47
Great plugin, but there’s a bug (on my install, at least):
On my sidebar I place the ‘recent posts’ widget. On the front page, everything looks fine – ACE has excluded the proper categories, and the ‘recent posts’ widget reflects the correct front page posts as well.
However, if I visit any category page, the ‘recent posts’ widget forgets about excluded categories and instead shows all of the latest posts from the entire blog, including ones from categories that have been excluded.
Is it a simple fix I could do? Thanks
March 6th, 2008 at 10:00
Currently there is no widget support, but I plan to do develope it shortly
March 9th, 2008 at 08:31
I’ve run into the same issue as root88, Hernan Silva and tabris…
I only have 3 categories, and the one category that I would like to exclude, does not show up under the ACE Dashboard.
Any ideas on why that is and how I can fix it?
March 9th, 2008 at 11:33
Try out the developer version.
March 9th, 2008 at 18:02
Hi DJ,
I was having the same problem as a few other users, one of my categories was mysteriously not showing up in the ACE lists of categories. I tried the dev version and it didn’t solve the problem.
It turned out to be because of the exclude variable in ace_page_categories(). When I changed the ec3 else exclude to ” from ‘exclude=2′, the category I was missing (ID #2) showed up.
March 9th, 2008 at 19:47
In most recent versions of WP, category 1 is reserved for “Uncategorized” and 2 is for Blogroll. Anyway, I’ll update the developement version, to fine tune this option.
July 20th, 2008 at 15:48
Nice blog, i have added it to my favourites, greetings
November 20th, 2008 at 02:30
Seems like wordpress needs a front page option. All other posts can be scrolled in widgets or side bars.
We need to be able to get a home page field in editor.
April 22nd, 2009 at 08:49
If you ever want to see a reader’s feedback
, I rate this post for four from five. Detailed info, but I have to go to that damn yahoo to find the missed bits. Thanks, anyway!