Categories Question
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Hello guys, I have a blog with a podcasting feature. I have a category for podcast but when I publish the podcast under the category, I don’t want that post to show up on the main blog page. Is there any way to write a post which only show up in the specified category?
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I’m pretty sure you can’t do that. You can set the main page to a page instead of blog article list, but then you won’t see any of the recent postings, etc.
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That’s right. All blog posts will show up on the main blog page, regardless of category, unless you set them to password-protected, which is probably not what you want to do.
You might want to start a completely separate blog for the podcasts, though, and post a link on your main blog when a new podcast goes up. I’ve seen that done.
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Thank you guys for replying, I forgot the blog name but i think I’ve seen it done like that. Maybe they were using some special plugin for categories? anyone else can suggest something? Starting a new blog is another solution as you mentioned but that will create more work.
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The blog you were looking at was probably an independently-hosted blog using WP software, rather than a WP.com blog like ours here, and they have a lot more ability to do customization like that.
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yes it was independently hosted.. my blog is also hosted on my servers. Any solution for that?
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This is all I could find for those self hosting wp installations
http://codex.wordpress.org/Podcasting
Dedicated PodcastsTo create a dedicated podcast feed:
1. Create a category in the Admin > Manage > Categories panel for your audio files and call it something like “podcasts”.
2. Assign every post containing an audio link to your “podcasts” category.
3. If your blog is at example.com, your podcast feed will automatically be available at:http://example.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&category_name=podcasts
Add this to your .htaccess file to make a nice rewrite rule that points visitors directly to your podcasts (assumes you’ve categorised your podcasts as ‘podcasts’ as in the example above):#podcast rewrite
RewriteRule ^podcasts/?$ /yourWPsubdirectoryhere/index.php?category_name=podcasts [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^podcasts/feed/(atom|rss2)/?$ /yourWPsubdirectoryhere/index.php?feed=$1&category_name=podcasts [QSA,L]Now, you can give your podcasts feed as http://example.com/podcasts/feed/rss2 for RSS2 format, or http://example.com/podcasts/feed/atom for Atom format. (If you don’t know the difference between the two, give out the first, as RSS2 is generally a bit better supported).
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TT, they can do that on .com/.org (those rules are there already for the quite a long time), feed URI: http://matt.wordpress.com/category/podcasts/feed
as I got it, the OP don’t want post from that category (‘podcasts’) to be seen amongst other posts on their front page.
the solution is wordpress.org/support
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I just spent a long time reading about wordpress podcasting and trying to find a means of podcasts not being seen on the front page and I came up with zip. I’ll be interested to see what the blogger’s at wordpress.org support have to say.
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You have to be willing to trawl the Codex and mess around with PHP in your theme, but hiding categories from the front page can definitely be done. Just not here :)
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