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How2: Publish a Post to a New Page Without Posting to Your Main Home Page in WordPress 2.5.1December 19 2008

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

Projects: My Nixie ClockDecember 19 2008

My wife and I attended Maker’s Faire 2008 in California. It was a blast. Unfortunately, it was also expensive because I felt the need to buy every project kit I could get my hands on. One such kit was a beautiful Nixie clock offered at the Servo/Nuts and Volts booth. A picture of my completed clock is shown below. My wife has trouble reading it since it’s in HH:MM:SS format, but lacks the “:” between the Hours, Minutes, and Seconds. The picture was taken at 1:59 (forty seconds before 2pm).

Servo/Nuts and Volts appear to get their kits from Glowing Tech out of Canada. I had some trouble with a few of the tubes in my kit, as well as with the power connector (it was the wrong size for the supplied power supply, and had been used (soldered and de-soldered) prior to me opening the kit). I think Nuts and Volts sold me a previously used/abused kit. I was able to purchase the correct power connector at my local Radio Shack, but finding extra Nixie tubes was going to take a bit more effort. I contacted N&V and didn’t get a reply, so I contacted Glowing Tec

How2: Publish to a new Navigation Tab (or Page) in Wordpress 2.5.1December 18 2008

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 logging into your Wordpress blog and navigating to Plugins.
3. Once activated, you need to find the ID of the post you want to include in your new page. When you include the post ID it needs to be surrounded by double brackets like this [[#

How2: Create a new Navigation Tab (or Page) in Wordpress 2.5.1December 18 2008

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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1. Login to your blog and navigate to Write > Page and give your new page a short title (keep it short since it will be your new nav tab). I’m calling my new page “Projects”. Click “Publish”.

Join the Million Blog List!August 12 2008

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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