WPMS install v3.4.2
PHP version 5.2.17
MySQL version 5.1.65-cll

No I have not tried with Twenty ten/Eleven themes, or without the Genesis – Featured Widget Amplified. If it wont work in that environment, unfortunately it wont work for my site. ;-(

I’m guessing it might have to do with the Genesis – Featured Widget Amplified, which has the ability to Exclude Terms by ID

Hmm, that’s an odd error you describe. Does the problem still occur when you change to using the regular Twenty Ten or Twenty Eleven themes that come with WordPress? How about when you disable the “Genesis – Featured Widget Amplified” plugin? What version of WP (3.42 it appears), MySQL and PHP is your site running? Send me a direct note if you don’t want to post that info publicly. Mike

I’m syndicating a couple feeds via RSS, and wish to exclude them from going back out via my own RSS, eNews through feedburner. I’ve installed Ultimate Category Excluder, activated, NOT checked ANY content from exclusion and all but a few categories no longer appear in the featured content areas on the home page.

Can you help?
Thanks Steve

So if my review had 5 pages, the last 4 pages would be part of page 1, it would not be separate information or posts that should ever be read or listed separately on the site. This means i must hide pages 1 through 4 from the entire site, which your plugin does very well, but as noted, it then hides it from the series plugins post navigation. I’m not sure how much you tested the OSeries plugin, but it puts in page named “previous” and “next” page links at the bottom, and a table of contents. The plugin can no longer pull or find those extra pages, so it only lists the first page.

The thing is, i am using a heavily modded theme, and part of the original theme had an option to hide categories from the homepage, and if i enabled this, it would still work in Organize Series, so a softer technique for hiding from the front page must exist (i can also say that it wouldn’t hide it from widgets, only the actual front page), as it had a different result to your plugin. The problem with just using this method on my theme is two things:

1) it doesn’t hide the posts from archives or feeds.
2) your plugin breaks the themes method, so I can’t currently combine the two to get my desired result.

If this all still sounds confusing, I can always email you (or you email me) and I can interject pics to show the problem, would be far easier.

But the basic problem I’m facing is that while your method to hide from the front page is definitely the most efficient method, it is too aggressive for my needs, so if there was a way to choose the aggressive method and the softer method, it would be exceptional for my needs.

James

Hmmm, regarding your problem. You only want articles 1-3 to appear on your “Series page.” Are those 4 posts all in the same category? Are they the only posts in that category? If so, the solution might be along the lines of a new function or a tiny plugin to tweak the display.

Another thought: If you only want those 4 posts to show up on the “Series” page, why not simply combine the posts all together once they are written? The advantage of a “series” is that people can come into the middle of it (via search engine or from your RSS feed). Once the series is complete, just put them all together on one page or post. No need for the “organize series” plugin at all.