If you’ve ever wanted to publish a post to a separate page in your blog and hide that post from appearing on your bogs main home page (a.k.a the index page), Ultimate Category Excluder is for you.

For example, TysTips is intended to be a blog about blogging tips and tricks. But sometimes I write posts about other fun stuff, like TechToos, or my various projects. Since these posts aren’t directly related to blogging, they don’t really jive with the scope of the blog. Therefore I like to tuck them away in a separate page within my blog. To do this for my projects, I created a new page in my blog called “Projects”. Now I have a dedicated place to post entries about my various projects. To prevent these posts from detracting from the mission and scope of TysTips.com, I also wanted to exclude them from my main home page. That way if someone landed on my main home page expecting to see tips and tricks, they wouldn’t see a bunch of posts mixed in about nerdy electronics projects. Make sense?

For me the easiest solution was a little plugin called Ultimate Category Excluder. It’s extremely simple to use and it works great. Here’s how to use it:

1. Make a distinct category (or categories) for all the posts you want to excluded from your Main Home Page. In my example, all project-related posts are given the category “Projects”. (I use the Inline Posts Plugin to make sure that all my Projects Posts show up on my Projects Page - Directions on how to do that can be found here.)
2. Download Ultimate Category Excluder (UCE), unzip, and upload to

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In my previous post (here) I talked about how I added a  new page to TysTips.com entitled “Projects”. Now I’d like to show you the easiest way to add posts to your new page in Wordpress 2.5.1.

Adding posts to specific pages in a Wordpress blog is made simple by a the Inline Posts Plugin. Here are the steps:

1. Download the Inline Posts Plugin, unzip, and upload it into your wp-content/plugins/ folder. I use FileZilla to manage my content, as illustrated below (click the image to enlarge).
2. Activate the plugin by

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When I first set up TysTips.com I intended it to be a place for Blog tips , and blog tips only. However, after a few months I decided that it would be nice to blog about some of my personal projects for documentation purposes. For simplicity I wanted to include those blog posts in this Blog, but since they strayed from the theme of the Blog, I wanted them on their own separate Page called “Projects”.

You can see here that originally TysTips.com had two Tabs or Pages in the top Nav bar. “Home” and “Contact”. I wanted to add a third page with the title “Projects”.

Adding a new Page Tab titled “Projects” turned out to be simple. However, posting to “Projects” was a little more difficult and will be covered in another post (here). For now, here are the steps I used to add a new page to my wordpress blog

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It is said that there are over 70,000,000 blogs in existence.

The Million Blog List is an experiment to see how long it will take to get 1,000,000 blogs to list themselves on their site. Will it work? Probably. The experiment is to see how long will it take. The Million Blog List project started April 10th, 2008.

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If nothing else, it’s an easy way to get one more link to your blog.

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Scribefire is a handy blog publishing tool available for those of us who use Firefox for browsing. This Firefox Add-on supports the following blogging platforms:

• Wordpress
• Movable Type
• Drupal
• Textpattern
• Roller
• Meta Weblog API
• Blogger

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