[wp-hackers] Intervening in $posts and hidden categories

[Alex]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 00:36:19 -0500, Matt Mullenweg <m at mullenweg.com> wrote:
> 
> ayj & j wrote:
> 
> > So to return to the more general case - wp-blog-header deals very well with
> > a multitude of possible page request types (eg author requests, date
<snip>
> period, like .sticky, should be suppressed from view in the category
> listing, like "hidden" dot files in linux. This seems like an excellent
> idea to me. Any comments?
> 

Why not add a column to the table?
This would prevent having to do a mysql LIKE wildcard query if someone
wants to just get hidden or just get visible categories. The
categories will also have to be filtered from the RSS using whatever
method is used.