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

[Torger Bjornrud]

On Jun 17, 2004, at 4:17 PM, Alex wrote:

> 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.

Agreed, a db column would serve as a much better option for the reasons 
above.  It also keeps people from accidently hiding their categories.  
For example, someone might make a category about the game/anime 
".Hack".