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kenandebby on "Excluding a category from the Category Cloud Widget"

kenandebby — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:03:31 +0000

Resolved. Thanks again.

kenandebby on "Excluding a category from the Category Cloud Widget"

kenandebby — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:02:25 +0000

Thanks that worked. I had even tried pasting the whole url in there but I never noticed the category id number.

justpi on "Excluding a category from the Category Cloud Widget"

justpi — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:35:00 +0000

Go to Posts > Categories, hover over category name, look at the progress/status bar of your browser; or hover over category name, click Edit, look at the address bar of the browser.

kenandebby on "Excluding a category from the Category Cloud Widget"

kenandebby — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 02:22:33 +0000

I do not know how to exclude the category "uncategorized" or any other category from the Category Cloud Widget. I am using Triton Lite Theme. It ask me to enter in the category ID I wish to exclude. I do not know how to find the category ID but have tried the name of the category and everything else I can think of. I appreciate any feedback. Thanks.

panaghiotisadam on "Can't discover category id needed by category cloud widget"

panaghiotisadam — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:10:25 +0000

That's a good idea and it would help us tremendously, because lots of questions can only be answered effectively if you visit the blog: many answers are theme dependent, or require checking the sourcecode of the page or other things to find what the issue is, etc. So we often waste time when we have to post an URL request instead of an actual reply, or when we give a reply based on the username link and get greeted with "oh no, not that blog, the other one"...
Personally I would add a note next to the option you suggested - something like: "for fast and accurate answers, volunteers generally need the URL of the blog in question". Maybe I'll drop a note to staff, or discuss this with other experienced volunteers first (some staff members don't seem to be very happy when we try to tell them how to run things here). Thanks!

artprop on "Can't discover category id needed by category cloud widget"

artprop — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:47:52 +0000

Thanks again.

b) No, the URL you provide when starting a thread is only used by the support bot that gives an automated response if the blog isn't a wp.com blog. It's not made public, to respect the choice of the relatively few users who may have reasons not to link to their blog.

Maybe an option box next to the drop-down menu saying "Do you want to include this website address in your post?"?

guangzhoustore on "Can't discover category id needed by category cloud widget"

guangzhoustore — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:09:36 +0000

Thanks, that works fine.

panaghiotisadam on "Can't discover category id needed by category cloud widget"

panaghiotisadam — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:18:58 +0000

You're welcome.

a) Yes, it happens. I only gave that as a general suggestion. Better way of searching:
http://www.google.com/search?q=TERMS+site:http://en.forums.wordpress.com/
When I used that with "category id number" as the terms, the top result was this:
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/specifying-only-a-single-category-on-the-top-header-of-titan-theme?replies=5

b) No, the URL you provide when starting a thread is only used by the support bot that gives an automated response if the blog isn't a wp.com blog. It's not made public, to respect the choice of the relatively few users who may have reasons not to link to their blog.

artprop on "Can't discover category id needed by category cloud widget"

artprop — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:40:21 +0000

Thanks, that works fine.

By the way, searching for various combinations the tags to this post in Support docs and the forum didn't get anything useful. Also, when you start a new topic in the forum, it asks you what blog you are talking about, so I assumed (without checking) that it would publish that. Maybe that would be a useful new feature?

panaghiotisadam on "Can't discover category id needed by category cloud widget"

panaghiotisadam — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:23:01 +0000

Posts > Categories: hover over category name and check status/progress bar of browser, or click on category name and check address bar of browser.

Please search the Support docs and the forum before asking questions on standard features.
And please paste the URL of your blog when asking questions here. Or, better, make your username link to your blog (Users > Personal Settings: scroll down to Account Details, paste blog URL in the Website field, click Save Changes).

artprop on "Can't discover category id needed by category cloud widget"

artprop — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:17:38 +0000

The category cloud widget allows you to exclude categories from the cloud by specifying category ids. But how can I find the id of a category?

windwhistle on "Category Cloud exclusions"

windwhistle — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:55:12 +0000

Got it! Thank you very much.

panaghiotisadam on "Category Cloud exclusions"

panaghiotisadam — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:08:18 +0000

The category ID is a number. Click "Categories" under "Posts" in your dashboard sidebar, hover over name of category, look at your browser's progress/status bar.

windwhistle on "Category Cloud exclusions"

windwhistle — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:40:39 +0000

The Category Cloud widget set-up includes a box to list categories (by "category ID") to be excluded from the cloud. I've listed two, by name, to be excluded, but they still appear. Is a "category ID" different from the name of the category, and if so, where do I find the ID?

trent on "How i can get category ID"

trent — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:29:39 +0000

Just thinking you might not be in the right forums as I think you are hosted on another service and not wordpress.com. If this is correct, head over to http://wordpress.org/support/

If you are hosted here, what is your blog URL?

Trent

asifkhalil on "How i can get category ID"

asifkhalil — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:05:11 +0000

How i can get category Id number as i need to ad code for Other Featured News from category .

so i need category ID not category name .

or any one can help to setting up code