categories: global vs local ?? (newbie question)
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Hi… I’m using the Twenty Ten theme. It places in each posting a line like this: “This entry was posted in The Category.”, where Category is the name of my local category, assigned by me as a category in which the posting belongs. For example, one of my categories is “The Valley” and there are several postings in that category.
I was surprised, when I clicked on the text “The Category”, in the line mentioned above, to be taken to a page listing lots of different blogs by lots of different folks, all relating to, all using, this same-named category.
No problem. I can see how in some circumstances this might be a nice option to present to the visitor (to use this link to hop to other, similar-content blogs). BUT I don’t really want this feature here.
Is it possible to remove this line? or are such things written-in-stone in a given theme, not to be changed / edited out?
Thanks, Tom
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The categories and tags in your blog is working the way it’s intended to work. All links in widgets direct to your own posts. All Categories and Tag links on the post either above or below them posts direct to the wordpress.com global tag pages as they are set up to do. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/global-tags/
If you switch to the iNove theme there is an option you can use which will make all your tags and categories “local”. Aside from that there is not other option.
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The following is being said in a very kindly way with a smile. :)
This question has been asked so many times that we Volunteer just groan when we see it posted into yet another new thread as the searchbox contains zillions of threads with the answer in them. Invariably the question is asked by a new blogger who has yet to create an Archive of unique content and as they have not done so yet, their blog has yet to benefit from receiving the inflow of traffic from the wordpress.com global tag pages. Those of us who have been around for years are aware of the traffic flow benefit from the global tag pages to our blogs, and those who have just arrived have not experienced the same.
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Hi timethief,
> said in a very kindly way with a smile
Kid gloves and tenderness always appreciated! :-)
But other than my expressing my surprise, my question was really about one’s ability to edit the theme, not so much about the local/global category distinction, which is why I noted that I could see how linking to global categories could be a good thing.
In looking briefly at the css for Twenty Ten (for changes I might make), and in your note that “there is no other option”, I see that the inclusion of global categories is in fact rather “written-in-stone” (ex the iNove theme), save developing/hosting one’s own wordpress site.
Thanks again for taking the time to answer my question – much appreciated.
Tom
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Civil responses to comments said in a very kindly way with a smile are aalso appreciated . :)
Yes, I do believe it maybe coded into the underlying template and we cannot edit templates and themes as every blogger using the same theme is, in essence, sharing the same underlying template on this multi-user blogging platform. http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/editing-themes/
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