Introducing One Project Closer Quick Tips!

If you’ve found this page, you’ve discovered a new feature on One Project Closer — Quick Tips! 

Why Quick Tips? 

We needed a space to post smaller tips that aren’t really worthy of a whole post.  Many other blogs call these Asides or Extras.

Quick Tips will cover the same topics that the main posts do, but won’t appear on the main page or in RSS syndication. As such, they probably won’t garner much discussion.

Are Quick Tips Special?

Not really. Quick Tips work the same as all other posts on the site, except that they don’t show up on the main page or the feed.  They show up in the right sidebar instead!

What Happens If I Leave a Comment?

If you leave a comment on a quick tip, it will show up in the recent comments list on the right sidebar, and the author will be notified (so we will reply).  As usual, if you see something that’s comment worthy (like we made a mistake), just let us know.

How Did You Make This Work?

These four sites were extremely helpful:

Perishable Press’ WordPress Super Loop explains how to exclude posts in a specific category from the main page.  WordPress Garage’s Display Recent Posts in the Sidebar explains how to show recent posts in the sidebar.  We modified the code from WPG to filter on categories with some help from WordPress’ Codex Page on GetPosts().  Finally, JayPee has a great article on how to exclude a category from your WordPress RSS.  We chose to update the source feed for FeedBurner so that everyone’s Feed subscriptions were automatically updated to exlcude the new category.

If you want to do this on your site and are having trouble, just leave a comment here.  We’d be happy to help.