We often find ourselves looking for the best and easiest way to exclude categories or pages from the navigation menu, the WordPress loop, the category list, the feed, the search, and/or the archive. It's so easy to forget one of these elements and accidentally let that category slip into the blogstream. We actually wrote ...
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The
WP-Sticky WordPress plugin allows you to easily choose to "stick" certain posts at the top of your blog. This can also be done via code, as I explained in a post a few months ago where
I ...
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Anthology of Ideas shares his method for creating a horizontal drop-down menu for categories, involving the use of CSS and Javascript.
Displaying WordPress categories in a horizontal dropdown menu
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I've never come across a situation where I would need this feature, but I'd like to have this on record in case it ever comes up. Mike has developed a WordPress plugin,
Themed Categories that allows the user to select different uploaded themes for different categories. According to the ...
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There are many situations where you want to make sure that certain categories only appear on some pages, and not on others. Here are a few WordPress plugins that can help you do this without having to hack your template files:
Front Page Excluded Categories WordPress plugin - this plugin ...
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You may want to display posts from a specific category on the homepage or other pages of your site. For example, you might want to have a box that displays the latest three posts from your News category, or have links to your latest podcasts....
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To get a post from a specific category to appear at the top of the page above the rest of the posts, and to only change when a new post from that particular category is added, use the following code:
<?php /*?><?php $my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=featured&showposts=1');
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID;?>
<div class="featureItem">
<h1>Feature: <a href="<?php the_permalink() ...
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<?php$postlist = get_posts('category=6&numberposts=5');
foreach ($postlist as $post) :?><li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li><?php endforeach; ?>
Use this in the sidebar to display a defined number of posts from a specified category. Where it says "category=6" replace the 6 with the relevant category ID number, and where it says "numberposts=5" replace the 5 with the number of ...
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WordPress allows you to give different styles to different categories in a range of ways. You can style a category page: this means that every category page can have its own unique style. For example, let's say you have a site about vegetables, where every vegetable is a category. You can style ...
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You may have certain categories in your WordPress blog that you want to appear differently than other categories. For example, what if you have a category called "Tomatoes" and a category called "Cucumbers," and you want the titles of every post in the Tomatoes category to be red, and the titles in the Cucumbers ...
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