sportoct

Help from anyone? I was hoping the plugin owner Alex Rabe would respond.

Thanks

Hi Paul,

Okay, sorry this took awhile but I did what you said and unchecked the Category dropdown so now it’s a list on the site. Wouldn’t you know it fixed the problem. Now when you select on a category the page displays correctly, no error, and all the content is there. Why, in the heck, would that matter? Do you have any insight?

So I will be using your plugin but will just have the categories listed insteaad of a drop down.

One last thing – if you click on the link below, you’ll see that a post that I excluded, using your plugin, called “Building Dream Homes” is showing up as a “Next Post” at the bottom of the post. I would like to have it excluded from there too because it was never a blog/front page post but still appears at the bottom of this post. Do you have a fix for that?

https://www.virtuesforlife.com/video-a-surprise-birthday-gift/

Thank you so much for hanging in there for me with this, and I look forward to your response.

Stacey

Hi Paul,

I will uncheck the dropdown and see what happens and let you know.

I agree with you that it is perplexing that the category pages work with the right URL. I noticed that when I select from the dropdown the URL is: https://www.virtuesforlife.com/category and there is nothing to identify what category it is after the word category so no wonder I am getting an error.

I don’t know how I will get the permalinks to correct themselves and go to the right one. I will play around with the widget and let you know how it goes. Since its the weekend, I’ll need a couple of days to get back to you.

Thank you so much for your thoughtful and quick responses. You really stand behind your plugin!

Stacey

Hi Paul,

Hate to be a pest about this but when I deactivate the Simply Exclude Plugin all the category pages in the Topics listing come back with the content and no 404 error. That’s how I know someting is not agreeing with the Plugin. It’s like it’s excluding all the categories completely.

Not sure what you mean by “If I don’t use the dropdown is it any better?” If you mean do I have a category in the nav. menu, I have not switched over yet (this is what I am going to do), and I can’t until I know that this works. Are you thinking its the WP Category plugin somehow?

I have not published to all the categories yet that I want to exclude so you won’t see them in the dropdown. The only one there is Serve & Be Great and when I used the Simply Exclude plugin, it totally worked EXCEPT that the category content in the WP Widget Category dropdown, when selected, gives me the 404 error and all content is removed. But when I deactivate the Simply Exclude plugin everything comes back. I am using Thesis Theme.

Thanks for the explanation about the exclude. I have to see if I can figure it out.

I am too afraid to switch to another theme even to test. Too much work went into the site.

I look forward to any insight you may have. Have you tested the plugin with the Thesis Theme?

Thanks,
Stacey

Hi Paul,

Thank you so much for your response. I really want to get this to work properly. My settings for Simply Exclude at the top are default so they are:

Front – Exclude
Archive – Exclude
Search – Include Only
Feed – Exclude
Widget – No

Then I selected the categories below it and ticked off where I what I wante to Exclude, which is Front, Archive and Feed for about 5 categories. Everything works perfect except in my standard Categories WP widget when you select a category, a message comes up, which says:

You 404’d it. Gnarly, dude.
Surfin’ ain’t easy, and right now, you’re lost at sea. But don’t worry; simply pick an option from the list below, and you’ll be back out riding the waves of the Internet in no time.

Hit the “back” button on your browser. It’s perfect for situations like this!
Head on over to the home page.
Punt.

I get this message even when selecting the categories which I am not excluding (not touching) in the Simply Exclude list. So it’s making the WP Category plugin not work.

Is that explained better I hope? Also, I am confused as why you would make selections at the top in the header for including and excluding and then make individual selections for the individual categories. Why do you need both and I am confused as to what overrides the other? Can you explain?

Also, can you let me know what I need to select to get the WP categories working. Here is the link and you’ll see that it’s not working when you click on any category in the list;

https://www.virtuesforlife.com

Thank you so much, and I look forward to your response.

Stacey

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the response. I am using WP 2.9.2. The Simply Exclude plugin is causing the category default WordPress widget to not show the content when you click on the categories and go to the posts under them. I know it’s the plugin because when I deactivate the plugin, the content on the pages come back. I forgot what the message is but I think it’s a 404 error?

The widget I am using is the Default WordPress one.

I am trying to be selective in what categories I am sending out as a post. The Simply Exclude is what I want but not sure why it deletes content out of the category listings widget.

Thanks,
Stacey

Any response from the Plug-in creator of Contact Form 7?

Thank you so much!! I will try out your solutions to see which one works best for me.

I very much appreciate your response.

sporto