I’ve just taken the time to discover the query_posts() template function for WordPress and used it to exclude my tweets from the main page (and soon, the RSS feed):

Insert the following into your index.php before the “have_posts()” section:

<?php
if (is_home()) {
query_posts($query_string . “&cat=-42″);
}
?>

In this case, I’m excluding my tweets category (42) from the main home page.

Now, sitting back and enjoying the best of both worlds – cake, and eating it too

Update: Now using the Simply Exclude plugin to exclude the tweets from the front page and RSS feeds.

CSS Naked Day is a token of our appreciation to all the fantastic CSS coders out there who make the internets a prettier place for everyone.  Thank you.

(And I’m abandoning many of my in-progress posts since I’ve long forgotten the point I was trying to make.  I may continue the time-shifting series, or I may not.  But it’s likely I’ll blog more often, just little things here and there.  I miss the outlet.)

[My CSS Naked effort powered by Aja Lapus' CSS Naked Day Plugin]

The may return at some time in the future in their own feed.  Or they may not.  Just follow me on twitter if you want to keep up.

The great news is, 2.1 has been released!  And what’s more the upgrade took less than 15 seconds (including the package download time)!

Absolutely awesome.  Complete kudos to the WP team!

And remember folks, if you want something from WordPress that it’s not currently doing, ask for it and vote on other people’s ideas!

I am so ashamed. I rant and rail at other who do this, yet when the time comes apparently I can be just as incompetent.

The story goes like this: I received 3 expiry warnings from GoDaddy and blithely ignored them, as I had enabled the auto-renew feature where they simply charge the credit card used last time. Yeah good, except that I have changed credit card numbers and last years wont work. Stoopid. But recoverable at least. Fees paid and GoDaddy switched back the DNS within minutes. Very happy with their service so far. And to think I have Scott Sigler to thank for the recommendation – a horror podcaster would not have been my first choice for domain registration advice, but its working.

My most humble apologies to the various peoples who I have been assisting in their endeavors. I’ll have to step up my service level to win back your acclaim and trust.

For the 1 or 2 people who were subscribed to the sub-feed, it’s now being redirected to the main feed and you’ll probably see everything twice.

So, what did I use to do it? Well, since WordPress does not include an “Import from WordPress” option I had to dodgy it up by exporting the sub-blog into MovableType format and importing that. Thanks to the WPExport plugin (needs minor edits – read the comments at the source site) it was a trivial task. The MT importer auto-creates the required categories and can auto-create authors or translate them to pre-existing authors on your WordPress blog. Very tidy.

Update: To be specific, I did this to make the plugin work for me (I’m using WordPress 2.0.4):

• Removed ‘SQL’ and ‘blogger’ from the $filetypes definition at the start of WPExport_plugin.php
• Renamed 2 instances of user_nickname to user_nicename in MT.php

I’m also loving the Maildir format instead of MBox – why did it take me so long to try it out?!