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Category Exclusion, Content Exclusion, Advanced Content Excluder for WordPress
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May 13th, 2009 at 17:00
Hello,
I still cannot see links from blogroll. Neither upgrading to 1.4.3 didn’t help.
May 13th, 2009 at 17:03
I still don’t know the reason.
According to MichaelH on wordpress.org (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/267999?replies=5) and my experiences, it does not happen on default theme. What theme are you using?
May 13th, 2009 at 18:01
Is there any change of getting back a feature that was in 1.0.3 ?
I have a blog with a main page category called computers, then I have two categories called Macs and PCs. Sometimes I do posts for PCs that only appear in PC category. Sometimes I do posts in PCs and Computers.
In 1.0.3 these posts that are in PC and Computers appear on my main page, but in 1.4.2 they appear only in PC. So the exlclusion part kind of overwrites the fact that I chose Computers category also !
I would like those to appear on both pages.
Is this clear enough, or am I over the line?
May 13th, 2009 at 18:47
This is clear enough, well I’ll look what I can do about this
May 19th, 2009 at 21:05
I also have the problem with the blogroll links disappearing after installing 1.4.3 so I am still using 1.3.2. The templlate is called ‘dark-effect’
Thanks,
Barry.
May 20th, 2009 at 21:28
RnbUncovered, I’ll check it out, as soon as I’ll have time for that. Thank you for reporting
May 21st, 2009 at 02:45
Issue: ACE will note hide Categories in Main Navigation
Fix: Uncomment lines #497 and #500
#497 = //add_filter(‘wp_list_categories’,'ace_list_categories’); // deprecated
#500 = //add_filter(‘getarchives_join’,'ace_getarchives_join’);
This worked for me.
May 21st, 2009 at 02:47
Issue: ACE will only hide up to 5 Categories in Main Navigation
Fix: Fix line #246
1.4.3 version
for($j = 0; $j <= count($rows); $j )
Change to:
$max_count_row = count($rows);
for($j = 0; $j <= $max_count_row; $j )
May 27th, 2009 at 07:41
I am a very happy customer of your product
and want to say thank you for the ACE.
Greetings
June 1st, 2009 at 22:35
Your plugin is working so well for me. Working, I must say…where other plugins and many different versions of category exclusion codes DID NOT work. I’ve been searching for several weeks to find something like ACE, and I have to say that it is extremely relieving to finally find something that works for me!
That being said, I do have a problem. I host many giveaways on my blog, but would like to exclude those posts from my main blog page, and have them instead only show on my “Giveaways” page. I’ve successfully removed those posts from the home page of the blog, but they are not showing on my Giveaways page, and all the there categories of posts ARE. I’ve made the proper adjustments on the category page of the ACE configuration, to no avail. Can you kindly suggest a course of action to correct this problem? Thank you so much!
June 18th, 2009 at 11:14
Hi there.
Thanks again the great software. I do have a feature request if you ever find the time. Would it be possible for you to release an “ACE Calendar” widget?
June 22nd, 2009 at 15:24
Line 302 (advanced-category-excluder.php):
load_plugin_textdomain(‘ace’,'wp-content/plugins/advaced-category-excluder/lang’);
There is a “n” missing.
June 22nd, 2009 at 21:36
I am trying to filter categories from the category listing but it does not seem to filter. I have the first two check boxes on the settings page checked and a few categories checked on the home column. Am I missing something or is this a bug?
June 27th, 2009 at 22:48
Is there plans to support wordpress 2.8? Its been out for a while and when installing it on 2.8, the links are broken (not surprisingly)
June 29th, 2009 at 22:41
Is there a way to fix this for wordpress 2.8. It is no longer working.
Thanks,
Sean McGilvray
July 5th, 2009 at 14:31
Hi,
I’ve just found your plugin and I wanted to check that it will do waht I require.
What I want to do is publish posts to my blog that WILL NOT be seen by my readers BUT WILL be picked up by Google to help with my blog’s postion in the listings.
Am I correct in assuming that this is what your plugin will do and that all I need to do is mark the category I wish to hide in any section of on the ‘Categories’ page and select this category in the ‘Select a section to export excluded categories into XML Sitemap Generator:’ of the ‘Settings’ Page?
I hope that makes sense and I hope you can help me clarify this.
Many thanks.
Peter
July 7th, 2009 at 13:55
Plugin works well, though I’d love to see if it can hide posts from pagination also.
Do you think you could add in this functionality, or possibly direct me as to how to do it?
Thanks!
July 7th, 2009 at 13:58
Andrew, around version 1.0.4 I was looking at the pagination thing, but then I couldn’t figure out how to do so.
But I guess I’ll look at it again by your request.
July 7th, 2009 at 14:00
Thanks! That’d be appreciated.
If you want to drop me an email, I’ve got a slight idea as to how it could be done though.
July 13th, 2009 at 23:16
Have a problem with the widget
Warning: require_once(widgets/recent-comments.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/dosochos/public_html/site/wp-content/plugins/advanced-category-excluder/ace-widgets.php on line 11
what can I do??
July 21st, 2009 at 07:51
Hi! May you tell me if exist a way to exclude category (not only) even in the widget calendar (wp) on the sidebar?
thanks
July 26th, 2009 at 01:22
ISP upgraded to PHP5.3
[Sat Jul 25 16:10:11 2009] [error] PHP Warning: Parameter 1 to ace_join() expected to be a reference, value given in /pathtowpsite/wp/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 166
also happens with ace_where()
latest version (1.4.3) installed on wordpress 2.8.2
July 28th, 2009 at 13:45
do not exclude categories anywere, 2.8.1 work
wp2.8.2 not work
July 28th, 2009 at 18:32
Hey guys when I disable all plugins but this one I get the following error:
Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argumented is expected to be a valid callback, ‘exclude_category’ was given in /home/.edenizations/cshughes/pd4free.com/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 414
Any ideas?
Website http://www.pd4free.com
July 30th, 2009 at 01:53
latest version (1.4.3) installed on wordpress 2.8.2
with ACE enabled I see posts in the “Edit Posts” window multiple times
If I deactivate ACE I see posts 1 time only, like I would expect.
July 30th, 2009 at 15:30
Hi, I’m using your plugin to exclude a category from my main feed, and it works. But i have a problem, let’s see if you can help me out.
Let’s say I have:
Category 1
-Child 1
-Child 2
– GrandChild1
The category I want to exclude is Granchild1, it gets excluded from the main feed ok. But if i request: /category/category-1/feed/
Same to say, a parent category specific feed, then the posts from GrandChild come out again.
How can I avoid this?
Thanks for this plugin
July 31st, 2009 at 22:42
I have tracked my problems to PHP 5.3
some/all of the “filter” functions expect the first parameter to be passed by reference – it isn’t being passed by reference it’s being passed by value.
If I change the filter definitions to remove the ampersand on the first parameter I get what looks to be properly functioning behavior.
I get these notices…
7/31/09 13:12:28 /opt/local/apache2/bin/httpd[61038] user Notice PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /blah/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/advanced-category-excluder/advanced-category-excluder.php on line 394
7/31/09 13:12:28 /opt/local/apache2/bin/httpd[61038] user Notice PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /blah/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/advanced-category-excluder/advanced-category-excluder.php on line 399
7/31/09 13:12:28 /opt/local/apache2/bin/httpd[61038] user Notice PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /blah/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/advanced-category-excluder/advanced-category-excluder.php on line 399
August 4th, 2009 at 15:03
For me, the plugin also doesn’t work anymore since my provider updated to PHP 5.3.
August 4th, 2009 at 17:17
I got the solution. Replace in advanced-category-excluder.php:
&$where > $where
&$join > $join
&$args > $args
August 6th, 2009 at 08:24
Hi,
at first great plugin… great idea.
I wrote a post and put it in a category. The post is a thank-you-page for tracking reasons.
Then I went to
Dashboard > ACE > Categories
and checked all boxes with the new category.
I didn’t change anything in ACE > Settings.
I doesn’t work
What exactly do I have to do to exclude the category and the post everywhere?
Noone should be able to find it except you enter the direct link because it has to be found within the conversion process.
August 6th, 2009 at 08:26
sorry… I’ve forgot to tell you some details:
- WP version 2.7.1
- Theme: Pixel 1.9.1
August 13th, 2009 at 02:53
Since I upgraded wordpress to 2.8 my category specific widget for post to show up( http://jameslao.com/2009/07/29/category-posts-widget-2-0/ ) no longer works at all enless I enable it to show that specific category. I tried doing suggestion #7 but that didnt fix it. This is also after I updated the plugin. any help would be appreciated. Thanks!!!
August 13th, 2009 at 20:31
tried to post earlier. it looked like it had gone thru but I dont see it on here. So my question is. After I updated it from the version I had and then installed 2.8.4 it has stopped me from being able to have side widgets from the category on all things front page that I disallowed from showing in the posting area. I can turn them on to show on the front page and it works. any idea’s? tried several fixes to no avail
August 16th, 2009 at 12:02
hi,
I used your plugin, but the theme of my images have disappeared (after using your plugin).
The theme in question is “Arthemia” (by “michaelhutagalung”). The images that have disappeared:
-In the header (logo advertising)
-in the sidebar, it lacks an image of advertising also
How to online images?
Thanks
*******************
the original message is this :
i’m french
J’ai utilisé votre plugin, mais des images de mon thème ont disparu (après avoir utilisé votre plugin).
Le thème en question est “Arthemia” (par “michaelhutagalung”). Les images qui ont disparu sont :
-Dans le header (le logo la publicité)
-dans la sidebar, il manque une image de publicité également
Comment remettre en ligne les images?
Merci
August 18th, 2009 at 23:11
Hi, great plugin!
But like some of the post, the links created in the links dashboard don’t get displayed.
This happens when I use
wp_list_bookmarks(‘title_li=&categorize=0′);
in the theme. Hopefully it gets resolved.
August 21st, 2009 at 00:41
I have a custom query in a sidebar that pulls the most recent posts from a category “news”. I’ve excluded the category “news” from search, and thus, this query is also negated on the search template. Is there a way to only exclude the “news” category from the search query, and not the entire template?
August 21st, 2009 at 20:27
if you check out mmadogma.com you will notice that the front pages category widgets dont show at all. I unchecked everything besides the frontpage posting on categories(the topics only) yet the side bars still remain blank. can anyone assist? Thanks
August 25th, 2009 at 00:40
Looking for a way to exclude one category from recent posts, category list, and the Entries RSS feed for our site. This plugin seems to fit the bill great except it doesn’t appear to be affecting the RSS feed (on our staging site). Any idea what might be going on? Anyone else with this issue?
August 25th, 2009 at 11:29
Nick! 10x for solution!
August 26th, 2009 at 03:42
I installed ACE today and love it. Many thanks! The only issue I am having is that the following option has no effect:
“Do you want the categories selected for Home section, to be hidden from category list as well?”
While it is excluding the posts of the category, the category itself is still showing in the “Category lister sidebar widget”.
I have tried toggling it on and off to no avail.
September 1st, 2009 at 11:44
Is there any way to get this plugin to support more than 28 categories? Our site contains 45 categories and will likely need more in future, but the ACE categories page only lists the first 28 of these. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated…
September 7th, 2009 at 06:41
Nick, will you marry me??
How the F**K did you figure that out? I was about to put my first through the monitor until I tried your solution and it worked! THANK YOU!
September 7th, 2009 at 06:42
*put my FIST through the monitor, that is.
September 18th, 2009 at 20:25
Thank you for the fix wouldn’t have found it on my own!
September 21st, 2009 at 19:07
Hi first off, great plugin, we use it all the time. One feature request I have is the ability to control the 404 page in the same way that you can with other areas of the site. I know the 404 page doesn’t come up much (or it shouldn’t anyway), but consistency is always nice.
September 28th, 2009 at 00:49
Like what this plugin does, but it nukes my Pages! Get 404s when trying to access pages from the nav bar in my theme. Deactivate the plugin and the pages are back. Activiate and they’re gone.
Any ideas?
Thx.
October 2nd, 2009 at 02:51
Hi, any one knows how to hide my categories in the search engines? I have more than 40 categories and I want only my post URL to be indexed not to include the category URLs.
October 2nd, 2009 at 02:58
pierce,
ACE is not capable for these kinds of things.
But I’m sure it can be done with All in One Seo Pack. It has options, that does you might want:
- “Use noindex for Archives”
- “Use noindex for Categories”
- “Use noindex for Tag Archives”
October 7th, 2009 at 20:17
Hi Dear
On My Joke Of The Day site, there is a category Adult Jokes, I want hide this category on all pages but can’t delete it, So i Install ACE 1.4.3 & in options page i select the check box of Adult Jokes & click Doit. But the Adult Jokes category is still visible on all pages of
http://www.mobixone.com
October 12th, 2009 at 19:05
Is this plugin compatible in 2.8.4? It looks ideal, as I want to exclude some cats from appearing on the index page, but it says only works up to 2.7
November 4th, 2009 at 21:20
haven’t used it for anything complicated, really, but it works perfect for what I need! thanks!
November 10th, 2009 at 00:01
Is it possible to have more than one instance of the widget available? My theme has 2 separate sidebars and a home page, all of which need an ACE widget?
Thanks in advance.
November 12th, 2009 at 08:24
Newly added categories are not displaying with ACE->Categories menu. ACE only shows the existing categories when it was installed and it can’t displays the newly created categories.
I have cleared my cookies lot of time to update but nothing works
November 21st, 2009 at 22:05
Not bad, but still short of some vital functionality.
If you make a site with a lot of PAGES (ie. more a CMS type site than a blog) you want control of categories on specific pages…not just in what you call ’sections’, which is too general.
For example…I use a page called INTRO as my home page. I then have another page called BACKGROUND and another page called EXPEDITIONS (and several more pages). On each of these pages I need to display different category content. So the inclusion/exclusion needs to be on a ‘per page’ basis, not just via vague sections. I might have 100 pages and have no individual control over what is shown on them.
If you can address this ‘real world’ publishing situation, then you might have something. (I mean, it isn’t really that important to list search and disable-robot sections, is it! Think real, think pages….it’s where peoples’ CONTENT is!)
regds
darklord
November 22nd, 2009 at 17:00
Hi,
I have a problem, when i select a category to be hidden in posts, all the posts that are in that category won’t open. This so far is normal but if the post has other categories why not only disable one category to apear not all of them!!!
November 23rd, 2009 at 04:55
For some reason it has bloated my wp_options table to 76,000 entries. Do you know why or how to fix?
November 27th, 2009 at 09:15
Thank you fot this plugin.)
December 14th, 2009 at 04:33
Would love to ask you a detailed question about your ACE category excluder ie, it’s not working properly for my pages, need to give you all the details according to your bugreport page – but I can’t for the life of me find your email address anywhere on the site. Your email would be wonderful. Ta in advance.
December 17th, 2009 at 02:37
We just upgraded to 1.4.3, and suddenly our blogroll wasn’t showing up. The problem was inside of ace_get_bookmarks(). I dumped $links_to_exclude and $linkcategories_to_exclude, and both were an array of length 1 with an empty/null value in the only entry. It turns out that all of my links had no value for $bookmarks[$i]->term_id, and thus the term_id was in $linkcategories_to_exclude. My fix was to change:
if (in_array($bookmarks[$i]->link_id,$links_to_exclude) || in_array($bookmarks[$i]->term_id,$linkcategories_to_exclude))
to:
if (($bookmarks[$i]->link_id && in_array($bookmarks[$i]->link_id,$links_to_exclude)) || ($bookmarks[$i]->term_id && in_array($bookmarks[$i]->term_id,$linkcategories_to_exclude)))
Does this seem like a legitimate bug/fix?
December 18th, 2009 at 05:17
Hi, I’m running wpmu 2.8.6 under PHP 5.3, and I’m noticing that the ace_where() and ace_join() functions are marked with the pass-as-reference signifier. This is also causing draft posts on the blog to be shown as full posts. I’ve dropped the & from the function declaration, and all seems well, but I haven’t tested it very thoroughly.
December 26th, 2009 at 22:45
I have found this plugin to be virtually indispensable for theme development, included this plugin in my article
December 30th, 2009 at 10:25
Hi. Interesting plugin.
However I have one – major – gripe.
If I manually insert this code:
into a theme template file where I want to list my pages while excluding one, I reckon my HARD CODE should be able to override your plugin, or rather that they work in tandem.
Instead, your plugin OVERRIDES my hard code!
So I have to go in and tick off/on every box for things that I’ve already coded into the theme.
That’s pretty major, because if ever your plugin gets turned off, sure my code will default but you’re misleading developers who think their code is solid when your plugin essentially hijacks their output.
thanks.
Nick
December 30th, 2009 at 10:26
sorry. forgot to consider your comments will strip my code sample.
it’s PHP and it looks like this, you know how it would be written:
php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=&depth=1&exclude=3086′);
January 4th, 2010 at 05:03
Hello -
It seems that when a category is excluded from Search, this means both admin search and regular search.
Is there a way to prevent a category from appearing in user search but not admin search?
January 5th, 2010 at 18:58
i’ve tried the solution of “nick” but i just get the same result than before. My provider updated to PHP5.3 and since this action, ACE won’t run anymore.
Can anybody help me?
January 6th, 2010 at 20:00
For those of you getting the “Parameter 1 to ace_where() expected to be a reference” error:
The functions ace_where() and ace_join() are filters. Their parameters &$where and &$join respectively do not need to be passed by reference since filter functions in Wordpress are expected to return values anyway. Removing the preceding ‘&’ as recommended by Nick and Sam is not going to break your site at all so tweak to your heart’s content
@DjZoNe: You’re the plugin author so I stand corrected.
January 12th, 2010 at 17:46
Don’t work with Wordpress 2.9.1 !!
Please make a update please !!!!!
Thanks !
January 15th, 2010 at 19:07
Hi guys! Thanks for this amazing plugin! Unfortunately it’s not working with 2.85 WP versions.. any idea of when would you be able to update it?
Cheers,
J
January 16th, 2010 at 00:29
Has anyone found a fix for Hakon’s issue on post #3!?
Yes please make fix for 2.9.1 I can’t upgrade until this is working on it.
Thanks.
January 19th, 2010 at 09:12
Same here, doesn’t work with 2.9.1
This is such a great plugin, please update it!
Thanks a lot
January 27th, 2010 at 05:20
Keep working ,great job!
January 28th, 2010 at 20:16
As above…
Our site has crashed out and gone all RED…
Any idea when a fix will be made??
January 30th, 2010 at 16:45
“I got the solution. Replace in advanced-category-excluder.php:
&$where > $where
&$join > $join
&$args > $args”
i tried this bugfix. i’m using PHP5.3 but the plugin won’t work.
Please help me!
My Website can’t live without ACE!
January 30th, 2010 at 18:15
This plugin is great, but it isn’t working with Wordpress 2.9 and up. Is there going to be an update soon, or what’s happening? Please, keep us informed!
Thanks /S
February 2nd, 2010 at 08:08
Does not work with 2.9!
February 4th, 2010 at 14:32
New ACE 1.5 is coming, in a week or so.
With native Categories Widget support, new widgets options, and PHP 5.3 work arounds.
February 20th, 2010 at 20:09
I look forward to seeing the updated version and trying it out. This is a very popular plugin as I can see!!! Thank you for all your hard work, we appreciate it!
March 8th, 2010 at 04:15
Hello,
I just have installed wordpress 2.9.2 and the plugin ACE 1.4.3. When I activated the plugin, the sentence in my index.php
$wp_query = new WP_Query (‘cat=2&posts_per_page=3&paged=2′);
did not work anymore. Now the index.php shows all post from all categories including the revision of the posts (as they were real posts), weird!! I decided to remove the plugin. When I did it, everything became normal as before, that is, index.php shows only the posts with category 2.
Please try it that way.
Regards
March 8th, 2010 at 21:28
Forgot mention that I have installed PHP 5.3.1 and Apache 2.2.14 on my server. I say that because the plugin EventCalendar for WP has problems on PHP 5.3.1 in the call to functions with arguments passed by reference, for example, functions of the type my_function(&$var). In this case the function must be corrected to my_function($var). Maybe it is the same case for ACE 1.4.3 in PHP 5.3.1.
Cheers