Ultimate Category Excluder (UCE - unfortunately the same abbreviation as unsolicited commercial email) is a WordPress plugin that allows you to quickly and easily exclude categories from your front page, archives, and feeds. Just select which categories you want to be excluded, and UCE does all the work for you!

Ultimate Category Excluder was originally written by Kyle Slattery of fidgeting.net.

Compatibility

Right now, it’s only been tested with WordPress 2.1. It may or may not work on older versions–try at your own risk. There have been bugs reported under WordPress version 2.2 and 2.3.

Installation

1. Download Ultimate Category Excluder to the plugins directory under wp-content of your blog.
2. Unzip the ultimate-category-excluder.zip file.
3. Activate the plugin on your plugins page.
4. You can edit the options by going under “Options” and then “Category Exclusion.”
5. (Optional) I suggest you subscribe to my RSS feed so you can stay informed about any updates to Ultimate Category Excluder.

Uninstall

1. Deactivate the plugin on your plugins page.
2. Delete ultimate_category_excluder.php from your plugins directory, under wp-content of your blog directory.

History

• 0.21 Beta - January 10, 2008 - Initial release, fixed file name bug, dashes vs. underscores
• 0.2 Beta - December 13, 2007 - Initial release, tweaked to refer to PlanetMike.com, no functionality changed
• 0.1 Beta - February 14, 2007 - Initial release

To-do List

• Test under more recent versions of WordPress.
• Clean up code
• Allow settings to be automatically applied to child categories
• Have more precise control of exclusions–i.e. exclude from home page, but not from list of categories
• Create “category bundles” which are a group of categories that have their own feed, page, etc.

Anything you want to see in the next release of UCE? Let me know!

Find a bug?

This is a beta plugin right now, so there are bound to be errors. If you happen to spot one, let me know! Also, if there is anything you’d like to see in future releases, please, give me your thoughts.

Payment

Using Ultimate Category Excluder is free, you do not have to pay me anything. If you find it useful, and you’d like to pay me, any (or all!) of the following would be greatly appreciated:

• Subscribe to my RSS feed.
• Blog about the Ultimate Category Excluder plugin, tell your readers about it.
• Make a donation to me.
• Buy me something from my Amazon Wishlist.

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