Can you make a Category PRIVATE?
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Can I make an entire Category PRIVATE?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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You can make your site or posts/pages private, but not a category. How about making all posts in the category private (password protected or “private” status)?
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/
You can also create a page that is private, and manually link to the posts that are private.
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Am interested in the answer from WP on this query too. Unless this feature is in WordPress, it cannot be a true content management software pkg.
Other more sophisticated content management software brands, provide a great deal more flexibility and granularity to control access levels right down to category or to a database record (in this case, WordPress Post or, more differently Page).
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naokomc is correct that you can’t make a category private, but it is possible to (sort of) hide a category page.
A. Use a theme with custom menu capabliities, and design your menu to show category pages but not the hidden one. Obviously you won’t want to use a category widget.
B. Make a text widget with your category links. (Copy and paste source code from the category widget.Major downside: Depending on how private you want want the category to be you will want to disable tags and cats showing on posts by setting your privacy to” I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors”
Note: you can turn off the display of tags and categories on iNove (the only one so far, I believe), but it won’t yet support the menu option A. above.
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Oh, but with iNove, you could just use the hand-crafted text-category widget (B.) in the sidebar.
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Heck of a work-around solution tess, which is handled much more simply and with greater flexibility by a relational database software for the last few decades.
But appreciate your problem-solving effort.
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LOL Yes, I know, but it’s the challenge. When someone says, “it can’t be done” it’s like a puzzle to figure out. And technically it would work. at least in iNove… :-)
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Naokomc has already given the answer: you can make all the posts in a category private. When you do that, the category will no longer show up in the Categories widget.
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@maidiebike, wordpress.COM was never designed to be a CMS. To maintain security with this multi-user platform, there has to be restrictions, and those restrictions mean no advanced CMS capabilities.
If you want CMS, move to self-hosted wordpress where you can use more advanced themes and plugins, and where you can hack the themes and such to your heart’s content. It will only cost you about $10 to $25 per month when you include all costs (depending on bandwidth and storage requirements of course).
It you want full-on, top-of-the-geek bragging rights at the digital water cooler, go with Drupal. Incredibly flexible and capable (in the right hands), with a learning curve that goes vertical on full afterburner, till you run out of fuel.
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thx for the answers.
But still sounds like wordpress.org is not like Oracle ECM.
Hacking code, means the original info. architecture wasn’t intended to do certain things.It’s ok..there are times some of us have seen enough software perverted to do something else that it wasn’t originally intended to do. End result= huge amount of customized coding/reprogramming or buying too many software add-ons to achieve something a sleeker software pkg. can do better.
One day I’ll read the wordpress.org comparisons..to other players.
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Even wordpress.ORG doesn’t actually match up to the level of out-of-the-box capability of Joomla or Drupal, but I’ve seen many sites using wordpress as a CMS and have been very impressed with what people have done with it. One of the reasons that wordpress is so flexible is that there are so many plugins and themes available for virtually anything you would want to do, and most of the people out there needing CMS do not need the power or complexity of Joomla or Drupal, or Oracle ECM/UCM. ECM is for Enterprise level applications, and for most people it would be serious (understatement) overkill. It isn’t fair to compare Oracle UCM/ECM to wordpress. Apples and oranges.
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Most definitely. You can do a whole heck of a lot of customization to wordpress, Joomla or Drupal for what it costs for a Oracle setup.
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That has to be the understatement of the year.
Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite had a list price of $172,500 per CPU March 2009.
http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Universal+Content+Management
Now large organisations can knock quite a bit off that through negotiating bulk deals but bearing in mind that most servers are now quad core you can see that this is not cheap. There would also be ongoing anual licensing and support costs
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Not to mention that any web host is going to require that you have your own server. No shared hosting or VPS. Dedicated only.
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As someone who’s dealt with Oracle in the past, I was aware of the slight understatement. Not to mention, Oracle makes a sucky blog platform.
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Sheesh, I didn’t realize their opinion of themselves had gotten that inflated. I haven’t dealt with Oracle, or done any work on it for over 10 years, and was never involved in the purchase, just did some UI designs on a contract basis. If I remember back then, the database side of things could be had for about $2500 (limited number of users).
Apparently Oracle’s new slogan is, “All yer moniez are belong to us.”
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Dude, that boat don’t pay for itself. Nor do the facelifts (can you BELIEVE he paid for that face?).
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That is hard to believe, but at least the boat has chromium-plated hawser-holes according to Wikipedia – whatever those are.
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Oh, Larry Ellison does not get out of BED for less than chromium-plated hawser-holes. Ask Steve Jobs.
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