Cat’s a-gory, meow!

Aha! This is the one: Category Visibility. The prior plugin I installed didn’t behave quite the way I expected. This one has a more straightforward interface and logical cross-posting. The other one simply excluded any post that lists the excluded category, but if you mark a post with an included category and an excluded category, I think it makes sense that you want the post to show up in both categories. Why would you list more than one category if you wanted the excluded category to overrule the others?

UPDATE: Oops. This ain’t the one. It seemed to work OK, but I found out days later that the category feed was wiped out. And it didn’t seem to matter whether the category feeds were checked off or not in the settings. Ideally, checking them off would prevent the category from being piped into the main feed — which this plugin seemed to do flawlessly! But the category feed should have still been available. In any case, switching it back on didn’t seem to revive the category feed.

Grumblemunchkins. I keep hoping to get technical issues out of the way so that I can just concentrate on posting for a while.

UPDATE UPDATE: Maybe I’m missing an obvious solution. Right now, the Elf Life site redirects to the blog subdirectory. Instead of trying to suppress a category from the blog, I could instead publish just my journal category to the Elf Life homepage, the same way I’m publishing the Oopsie-Doodle category at the Oopsie-Doodle site.

I might as well try that. I’ve run out of WordPress plugins to try.