Finally it’s ready 
This version contains own widgets, that can be activated also in the plugins tab.
Currently we have 3 widgets:
- ACE Recent Comments
- ACE Recent Posts
- ACE Categories
Each of them can be used to replace, the original sidebar widgets. The options, and the functionality is the same, as the original ones, except, that these widgets do support your exclusion options.
By the way, this is the first version when I bundle translations as well.
A big thank you goes out to Mikael Jorhult for the Swedish translation, and I did the hungarian one.
I accept translations for other languages, thus I included the POT file, for localizers. SO translations are always welcome.
August 10th, 2008 at 17:50
Hi there djzone, i have downloaded your latest version and it still won’t work for me, i am using the prosense theme and the recent posts still show in the sidebar 2, i even tried it in sidebar 1, with and without your widgets that you included, any suggestions ? Mick..
August 10th, 2008 at 18:24
Hi Mister Gibson,
Have you activated ACE widgets, and replaced the original ones with them?
August 10th, 2008 at 18:55
Hi there
I did do both those things, i activated the widgets in plugins, then i went to the widgets page, i removed the normal widgets from sidebar 2, then i added the ace widgets to sidebar 2, but the posts i dont want to show still show up in your recent post widget, i have tried clearing my cache still no luck, the recent comments box of yours wont even let me chang the number of comments in the box, sorry i don’t know what i might be doing wrong, regards, mick..
August 11th, 2008 at 06:53
How do I exclude a category from the ACE Recents Posts widget?
Thanks for this great plug-in by the way!
August 11th, 2008 at 10:00
Mick,
I’ll download the theme, and take a deeper look.
Michael,
Just select categories for your blogs Home section, and it will affect the widget.
August 11th, 2008 at 12:04
I did a french translation but there is things that are not translated
How can you send you the po file ?
August 11th, 2008 at 18:31
If I do that, though, the posts won’t show up on Home. Right? I just want Recent Posts to exclude a category only for itself.
August 11th, 2008 at 18:42
If you select a category for exclusion to the Home section, and you post an entry to it, it shouldn’t show up in Recent Posts. Do you want something like this?
August 11th, 2008 at 18:54
I need those posts to show up on Home while excluding them from the Recent Posts widget.
August 11th, 2008 at 18:56
Oh I see…
We do not have, this feature now. But I’ll add to the request list.
August 12th, 2008 at 02:04
I’m using wordpress 2.6 and ACE 1.2.3. I am having an issue when a post is in two categories the post still disappears off my home page. For example I have a post in categories Games and New Stuff. I only have the Games box check in ACE and yet my post disappears off the front page.
I currently have ACE deactivated on my site till I can get it to work.
August 18th, 2008 at 14:21
d-shade,
I have the same issue (reply 3 with release 1.2; here) and Strage Reply (reply 1 with release 1.2.1). Sadly DjZoNe hasnot found a fix yet.
For me, release 1.0.3 (with wordpress 2.6.1) does work!
August 18th, 2008 at 15:12
In this case I guess I’ll go back to the old SQL code, and keep the API.
The only thing I have no clue about what to do with old mysql 4.0 users…
August 19th, 2008 at 00:35
I have a couple features that I’ve added to make this function on some websites I’m working on. I’d like to pass the changes upstream. I just tried to send an E-Mail, please let me know if you get it.
August 19th, 2008 at 03:38
I’m having the same problem as d-shade and BvO. When two categories are selected, the post does not show on the home page (which is the page I limit).
August 20th, 2008 at 07:26
I have set several categories to be excluded from the Home page, and have tried to leave those categories in the category widget in sidebar one by checking and unchecking (tried both ways) the option the the options page of ACE.
The categories do not show up in the category widget.
August 20th, 2008 at 12:05
Hi! DjZoNe!
First of all, thank you for great plugin.
But I’ve same problem as few dudes above.
I want to exclude category X on frontpage (main loop), but call another loop, where I requested for list of posts from X-category. It doesn’t show on home page, but ok on other pages (single, archive, etc.)
Please fix it, asap!
Thank you!
August 21st, 2008 at 01:59
Mayuxi: The patch that I sent to DjZone has a fix for that. If you’d like me ot send it to you, contact me at fromMayuxi@xavisys.com
August 21st, 2008 at 03:16
Hi Aaron, and everyone!
I appreciate that you take the time to patching this, and sending me the fix.
I’ll include it in the next version, that will hopefully come before this weekend.
August 21st, 2008 at 03:20
Yeah! Thank you, DjZoNe and Aaron!
August 24th, 2008 at 18:39
Seems to be under 2.6 compatibility bad, save often fail? to choose a cCategories, click the Save, but do not keep records back to the original
August 26th, 2008 at 11:23
Hello.
I’ve posted this before, but it hasn’t been fixed in the new release. Category names should be escaped for regex. For example, if the category names contain characters such as forward slashes, you get loads of errors in the category list. Here’s the fix.
In advanced-category-excluder.php:
Line 178: $p .= preg_quote($catData->cat_name, “/”);
Great plugin, otherwise!
August 31st, 2008 at 19:41
hello.
I uploaded the upgrade and now when I press ACE it goes to an error page on my site! I should have just kept the old version. I am working on WP 2.6. the older version worked fine. I rtried to reupload it and it keeps going to anerror page on y site as well.
Can some help please. I need this plugin or y site looks crazy!
September 2nd, 2008 at 21:14
Hi DjZoNe and everyone,
Thanks for the work and the fantastic plugin.
I would like to enhance the CMS capability even more. I would like to choose which category post appear not only on the 5 pages that you have (home, archive, …) but also on the user defined pages.
Can you help me how I should do that?
Thanks.
September 3rd, 2008 at 14:52
This plugin is awesome, I have one question though. So I’ve excluded this category from HOME… but I still like posts from this category to appear in the Recent Posts widget in my home page or any other page around the site… how do I do that?
September 4th, 2008 at 00:58
I’ve cooked up a little calendar widget for ACE. Drop me an email and I’ll send you the file.
September 4th, 2008 at 23:56
I, too, am having a problem similar to Hanifah above (#23).
WP v2.6
ACE v1.2.3
Have uploaded and activated the plugin successfully, but when I click the “ACE” tab in the admin panel menu, it takes me straight to a page on my blog with the URL:
http://www.myblogname.com/wp-admin/advanced-category-excluder/main.php
So, I’m unable to actually customize it. Is this operator error? I’ve tried deactivating and reactivating the plugin with the same result.
Thanks.
September 5th, 2008 at 09:18
Thank you for developing this plugin.
It is a great idea. I don’t suppose you have a simple guide for the Best use of it?
Cheers,
Jeromy
September 5th, 2008 at 09:54
@Hillbilliy: I use it on our group’s website to separate posts about “events”, “releases” and “press clippings” from our daily blog posts. I also use the NAVT plugin to put links to the excluded categories into the main menu.
These two plugins turn Wordpress into a great website CMS.
September 5th, 2008 at 10:10
@philtre, Cool! Your site looks great. I have been reading about CMS on wiki. It essentially organizes and controls presentation of data/content if I understand correctly.
My little marketing blog is small and already I am finding myself unsure how to manage the content. Bit more learning to do:)
Cheers,
Jeromy
September 5th, 2008 at 17:58
How about a recent posts widget for the excluded directory?
September 6th, 2008 at 01:00
Very nice plugin!
Should be default to wordpress in my opinion, thanks.
September 6th, 2008 at 17:59
I’ve been testing your plugin and have a few functions I need for it to be worthwhile. Hopefully, this is either a setting I’m overlooking or a simple edit to the code.
I’d like the excluded category content to be invisible on all individual posts and pages too. I notice that the posts are hidden on the home page, in the ACE widgets, in the feeds, in the archives, and in the individual category pages, but not on specific posts or pages. I want to create a link on the homepage to direct visitors to the categories directory and have the content be hidden from any other place. However, I want the excluded posts still to be indexed in search engines.
Any ideas?
Thanks
September 6th, 2008 at 18:03
Abe,
thank you for your complement.
Bouch, this feature, or bugfix will be in the next release when I have time to finish that…
September 6th, 2008 at 18:35
Great! Thank You DjZoNe.
Has it been in developement for the next release already, or do you need to start from scratch? Just want to get a timeline so that I can determine where to focus my site for the time being.
September 6th, 2008 at 18:37
My straight answer is I don’t know when would I have time for it. Because I currently focusing on my other developement projects.
September 8th, 2008 at 21:07
Hi,
I want to hide posts from the “Recent Posts” section on the sidebar under certain category? How can I do that?
“From version 1.2.3 we have an ACE Categories widget that you can use in your sidebar, to replace the original one.”
Does this mean that your pluggin can do that already? If so then how can I use the widget? I can’t seem to find it anywhere.
Regards.
September 9th, 2008 at 00:01
Did anybody find a solution to kezsuzsi’s post above ? here it is again: “Thanks for the work and the fantastic plugin.
I would like to enhance the CMS capability even more. I would like to choose which category post appear not only on the 5 pages that you have (home, archive, …) but also on the user defined pages.
Can you help me how I should do that?
Thanks.”
September 10th, 2008 at 15:15
I use Advanced Category Excluder 1.2.3 and WordpressW 2.3.3.
The “Install Manual” says all you have to do is upload “advanced-category-excluder.php” to “/wp-content/plugins/”. I did that and now have a ACE link in my dasboard.
When I click on that link I get a 404 error. Page “/wp-admin/advanced-category-excluder/main.php” does not exist.
So I went to the /wp-admin/ folder and uploaded the whole “advanced-category-excluder” folder, including the “main.php” there. When I now go to “”/wp-admin/advanced-category-excluder/main.php”" I get this error:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /…/wp-admin/advanced-category-excluder/main.php on line 4
Warning: reset(): Passed variable is not an array or object in /…/wp-admin/advanced-category-excluder/main.php on line 8
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_option() in /…/wp-admin/advanced-category-excluder/main.php on line 19
What exactly am I doing wrong?
September 10th, 2008 at 15:28
@Malte: do you have any “/” characters in your category names?
September 11th, 2008 at 11:05
@philtre no, all my category names consist of characters only.
September 12th, 2008 at 10:16
Hi,
Seems there’s a bug with the category listing on the homepage. Try hiding half of your available categories and you’ll see that only part of them will be hidden.
The bug is caused by an array index which gets re-read in a loop.
Solution: modify advanced-category_excluder.php like this:
add line 185:
$k = count( $rows );
modify the line below:
for($j = 0; $j <= $k; $j++ )
Cheers,
Denis
September 14th, 2008 at 12:00
I’m in the process of redesigning my three blogs.
I was hoping this plugin had a feature I was looking for, that is, when a category page is accessed the sidebar widget would detect what that category was and display “X” number of posts in that cat.
As each different cat page is accessed the widget would detect it and display the correct cat.
Is that possible with this plugin and I have missed it or can it be modified to act in this way?
Thanks
September 15th, 2008 at 04:35
hey wasup??
yeah, the plugin works great, but the RSS Posts part isnt working =] i selected some categories and they still appearing on my RSS… but the plugin is great man =] good job!! u helped a lot!!
September 18th, 2008 at 03:44
Hi, I found your blog on this new directory of WordPress Blogs at [removed]. I dont know how your blog came up, must have been a typo, i duno. Anyways, I just clicked it and here I am. Your blog looks good. Have a nice day. James.
September 20th, 2008 at 02:20
I have activated the ACE Plugin but I can not access the ACE settings. I get this massage:
Cannot load advanced-category-excluder/main.php.
And when I click on any other button in ACE it takes me to the main page and I get 404 error.
Any ideas ?
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:45
I found a bug which is very annoying for me.
I exclude some cats. from the archive’s. Lets say in August 2008 I only wrote articles I excluded, the cat. is still visible (but empty) and shows a 404.
Thank you for listening
October 2nd, 2008 at 15:50
Unfortunately, the “404 on empty categories” problem is actually a bug in WordPress #5324. Hopefully it will be fixed in 2.7, but it has yet to be committed.
October 2nd, 2008 at 22:26
Cool plugin… But how can I get this plugin to exclude the posts too? I want to hide my categorized rss feeds from the Archives.
Please help!
October 3rd, 2008 at 14:56
Love this plugin! It’s been working fine for me until a couple days ago. I seem to have a bug similar to what Denis in #42 above saw.
I use ACE v1.2.3 and WordPress v2.6.1 with a static home page, plus the ACE Categories widget, and Indomagz 2 theme. Weeks ago, I set the ACE to exclude all but 5 categories in the Home section and checked the settings box “Do you want the categories selected for Home section, to be hidden from category list as well?” No problem.
Yesterday, the Categories suddenly showed a seemingly-random 6th category, even though that category was checked to be hidden. I tried deactivating and re-activating the plugin and re-toggling the Home checkboxes to no avail.
When I checked all of the Home boxes, which should have resulted in an empty categories box showing on my website, it showed the last four of my categories in alphabetical order. They were not created in alphabetical order.
When I unchecked a 6th category in Home, that newly-unchecked category replaced the seemingly-random 6th category. But I want only 5 categories to show.
Something is telling my WordPress to do this, but what? where? I’ve combed through my theme files and found nothing useful.
The only infrastructure thing I had changed yesterday was to upgrade my Breadcrumb NavXT plugin. I deactivated that plugin, but it had no effect on the categories showing.
Denis says to add some stuff at line 185. I looked at that file, but didn’t see line numbers. Because script debuggers give line numbers that do not match the error when I count lines, I hesitate to simply count down 185 lines. Where should we add Denis’s code?
thanks,
Newc
October 3rd, 2008 at 15:23
argh! after I sent the above comment, I saw the “Bugreport” page. So here’s my additional info…..
MySQL: 5.0.66a-log
PHP: 5.2.4
Active WP plugins list:
Admin Management Xtended v1.8.5
Advanced Category Excluder v1.2.3
Advanced Category Excluder Widgets v1.2.3
Breadcrumb NavXT – Administration Interface v3.0.0
Broken Link Checker v0.4.8
Direct Images URLs for Galleries v1.0.0
FD Footnotes v1.2
Feedburner Feedsmith v2.3.1
FeedBurner Feedsmith Stats v1.0.3
Filosofo Hide Email Addresses v0.50
Future Calendar v1.0
Hash checker v1.2
Image Rotator Basic vBasic1.0
Inline Posts v2.1.2g (yup g)
List category POsts v0.3
Maintenance Mode v3.2
No Browse Happy v0.1
No self Pings v0.2
Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu v2.3.4.1
Page Link Manager v0.3
Post template v3.1.0
Remove Max Width v1.3
Reveal IDs for WP ADmin v1.0.2
Search Unleashed v0.2.22
Sign Out Reminder v0.2
Simple Image Link v1.4
Smart Youtube v2.3.2
Star Rating for Reviews v0.4
TAC (THeme Authenticity Checker) v1.3
Version INformation v1.1
Widget Changer v1.2.5
Widget Logic 0.43
WordPress.com Stats v1.3.2
WordPress Database Backup v2.2.1
WP-Codebox v1.3.1
!P-PageNavi v2.31
WP-Postviews v1.31
WP-Postviews Widget v1.31
WP More Feeds v0.15
CATEGORY LIST:
District & National
Drop-in Discussions
Eastman @ Washington Square
membership
ministerial reflections
Outside 1st Universalist
Past Sermons & Services
Sermons & Services
Special Announcements
This Week This Month
Uncategorized
EXCLUSION LIST:
Drop-in Discussions
membership
ministerial reflections
Past Sermons & Services
Sermons & Services
Uncategorized
Also, this problem happened to me in a previous version of ACE. I got around it by removing the ACE Categories widget and activating the (regular) categories widget. So when I first saw this 6th category show up unbidden, I switched back to using the ACE Categories widget, to no avail. So I tried the regular categories widget again, to no avail. So I’m back using the ACE Categories widget.
thanks,
Newc
October 4th, 2008 at 22:50
Excellent wordpress plugin , I downloaded and upgrade to ACE version 1.2.3 with not problems at all on my wordpress blog version 2.6 , it is working fine, just to let you know it.
Regards,
Andy
October 7th, 2008 at 14:40
In ACE you can select the option: “Do you want the categories selected for Home section, to be hidden from category list as well?”
My “problem”:
I got 1 categorie that has to be excluded from the home section but show up in the categorielist, and I got another categorie that has to be excluded from the categorielist, but show up on the homepage.
Would this be possible in a new version of ACE?
October 7th, 2008 at 22:30
I’m using Structure Theme from http://www.justintadlock.com, and there’s tabs option on the sidebar, so I can’t replace with ACE recent post widget etc. if I using ACE widgets it can’t be like that theme tabbed. How can I fix it ? now the hidden category still showing up
October 8th, 2008 at 00:34
Hi there, nice plugin.. i just have one little problem.. please look at my site.. is there any way to display posts from category “hem” without displaying the specific fcategory in the category list? (I have remaned category to “Orter”). Happy for any help.. // SNURK
October 9th, 2008 at 03:38
Seems promising. Are there installation instructions? I’d like to try it. Possibly others are in the same boat. I did try searching on this site for “install”.
Wordpress is a few days old on my Joomla! site of 2 years.
October 11th, 2008 at 07:56
When does the ACE works with Tags??
That would be great
October 14th, 2008 at 23:10
Great plugin. I am using it to display Asides.
I have one category that I want to exclude from the home page; works perfectly. But sometimes posts with that category also have another category. I want to exclude them from ACE Recent Posts widget.
I think other people have the same request, but I could not see an answer.
October 21st, 2008 at 19:24
One would think that if someone takes the time to write a worthwhile pluggin then they would take equal time in writing an accurate installation procedure. The included README.txt states to copy the advanced_category_excluder.php file to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory. This falls far short of other requirements necessary to get this plugin to work. For example, the following also needs to be done:
mkdir wp-admin/advanced-category-excluder/pages
cp main.php into wp-admin/advanced-category-excluder
cp categories.php, home.php, and tags.php into wp-admin/advanced-category-excluder/pages
now activate the plugin
Nothing kills an effort like poor documentation.
October 21st, 2008 at 20:24
or like a bad/inaccurrate comments.
My current configuration for this plugin looks like this:
wp-content/plugins/advanced-category-excluder/
advanced-category-excluder.php
wp-content/plugins/advanced-category-excluder/pages
categories.php home.php tags.php
wp-content/plugins/advanced-category-excluder
main.php
October 21st, 2008 at 22:23
Your plugin doesn’t show up in widget. Does I have to do any specific to active it?
October 25th, 2008 at 13:07
Can this plugin be used to post to different pages and inessense have blog within a blog. I have a local city website that I would like to have different news pages and be able to post to them seperately
October 26th, 2008 at 16:26
Great plugin! Thanks!
October 28th, 2008 at 19:58
Hello, thanks for your plugin, that’s exactly what i search for a while…
I just have two problems:
First, on the menu of the archive page (who show number of posts by month), posts in the excluded categories are counted (for exemple for October it says to me there are 5 posts, but the 5 posts are in excluded categories so when i clic on the month, it show me an empty page)
Second, excluded categories work fine with atom feed (wordpress/?feed=atom) but not with rss feed (wordpress/?feed=rss2) :/
November 2nd, 2008 at 06:29
I seem to have an odd thing with the ACE recent posts widget: It’s not excluding items from any page BUT when the widget appears on the blog page (I have a static page for my home page). Which kind of kills the point of the widget.
November 3rd, 2008 at 12:25
Since this plugin excludes, or one could say “wipes out”, categories. I find the non-standard button labels of “Doit!” and “Wipe out!” to be kind of ambiguous.
November 5th, 2008 at 19:32
Same issue as Dan @ #65. The widget does nothing on static pages (which also includes my home page). Any solutions?
November 5th, 2008 at 19:35
Neil, Dan I guess I’ll rewrite that part in the next release.
November 14th, 2008 at 00:51
Hi there! Thank you, Very nice plugin!
Greetz from Germany
November 17th, 2008 at 14:37
Also seeing issue with recent post widgets. Works great on home page but displays hidden posts on all other pages.
But wanted to say thanks for the plugin as is gives everything I need. Will be perfect when wideget’s fixed
November 17th, 2008 at 21:28
This is a nice plugin but there is a issue with WP TAGS. On a category I want to hide all post in that category the tags no longer work and 404. Yet a category that is not hidden the tags work fine. Any idea why this is?
Thanks
November 18th, 2008 at 23:48
I have the exact same problem as Malte Landwehr. After installing finding out that the installation instructions are actually band and I need to add the whole unzipped folder to wp-admin and doing so, I click on ACE and get to wp-admin/advanced-category-excluder/main.php
I get the error:
PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_option() in /wp-admin/advanced-category-excluder/main.php on line 19,
no I don’t have any “/” or weird chatacters in my category names.
This plugin seems promising but I can’t even get it installed.
November 21st, 2008 at 13:01
I would like to request an option so that you include only ONE category on the homepage (but others may want this feature for other pages as well). For the non-coders, there isn’t much resource out there to do this, although this should be a simple command of using template tags and query_post. Regards.
November 24th, 2008 at 05:51
Hi DjZoNe,
Great plug-in.. does exactly what I was looking for… not using the widgets just the basic plug-in. I have a blog with 2 categories… one category ‘News’ is just to be pulled and displayed on the html home page as a news box… so I want to completely hide any posts for thet category from showing up in the regular WP blog… all works well except that posts to the ‘News’ Category are linked to in the previous and next buttons whn viewing a single post… anyway you know of that I can prevent this?
Thanks for the good work,
Steve
November 27th, 2008 at 15:27
How do I make the exclusions work with the wordpress widget calender?
Thanks
December 5th, 2008 at 05:33
I want to use your basic ACE plug-in, but it won’t list all the categories I have. It cuts off after so many.
December 9th, 2008 at 02:48
Hey. Great plug-in. I’m having a problem, though. I want to hide my “Events” category, however, I don’t see it listed under ACE. The Events category is my EventsCalendar category, btw, and I’ve tried the “Do you want to display Event Calendar default category in the Categories tab?” option checked off (and on for kicks) to no avail. Thanks!
December 9th, 2008 at 04:21
Mandy,
I had the same tag issue. I just added the following at the top of the ace_where() function in the ace-category-excluder.php file. This prevented any category exclusion when displaying tag archives.
if(!empty($wp_query->is_tag)) return $where;