[wp-hackers] Static content plugin

[Ryan Boren]

On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 14:21, Carthik Sharma wrote:
> With Kitty's elaborate category show/hide plugin, and all other
> similar problems with hiding specific categories/posts in mind, I
> think the time is ripe to add an extra column/field to the categories,
> which controls whether a categories posts are displayed on the
> index.php, archives etc pages and the list_cats functions.
> In other words, we should either have the .category type hidden
> categories, or a simple boolean variable(or more than one, perhaps)
> associated with each category that decides whether it is shown on
> various pages/returned by various functions.
> 
> I found it easiest to add "static" pages (like the about me pages)
> using LaughingLizards old wp-wiki hack.

I agree, the time is ripe to consider this.  Some of the most requested
features are sticky posts, "static" posts, and visibility control.  I
think these are good candidates for inclusion.  The trick, as always, is
getting good UI.  I don't like adding preferences without a plan.

Ryan

> On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:14:33 -0700, Kitty <kitty at mookitty.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > Re: About pages.
> > This is pretty easy to do. I've created a post called 'about me' but
> > into a category called 'site meta' and then used my show categories
> > plugin to keep any post in 'site meta' from showing up on the front
> > page, and also excluded 'site meta' from the category list. Then I made
> > a link using the Link Mgr to the About Me post's permalink.
> > 
> > (Currently I'm allowing 'site meta' posts into the main flow for other
> > reasons, but the idea is the same. I'm also pulling out any site meta
> > post for use in a mini-blog side box.)
> > 
> > Sure, it still looks like a post, but some creative use of CSS IDs and
> > you could style it anyway you wanted, with all the WP benefits of
> > dynamic updating, etc.
> > 
> > On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 11:28, Moises Kirsch wrote:
> > > Most people (in the forums) are looking for ways to create something
> > > like an "About" page as part of wordpress and I think that this would
> > > be a cool future because you could manage the whole website from WP.
> > 
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> > Cheers!
> > Kitty <kitty at mookitty.co.uk>
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