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I apologize for the long delay.  I’m now beginning work on bug fixes and new version sorry for delay.  Please go here to submit issues and ideas and vote on the ones you’d most like to see! 2.0 Feature Suggestions or 1.0.8. Bug Fixes (things that need fixed or ideas on how to)

P.S. if in the delay you have found another plugin that fills this whole please let me know. Because I’m not vain and will gladly point everyone else in that direction. I’ve been just trying to keep this feature alive. Also, will gladly accept and credit any assistance offered in making this plugin again viable.

As I work I’ll post alphas to the Category Visibility Plugin page.

I have update the current version of CatVis for 2.7 compatibility.  Previously mentioned updates are still planned for ver. 2. I am in the process of moving to a new city and job so version 2 may take longer than originally planned.  Other changes you will notice in this update is that I have stripped link categories and tags. Some of you will really appreciate this some may hate me. The plan is to bring both back in version 2 properly located within the new structure. Please continue to give me feedback.

Category Visibility Plugin

I have found that when activating CatVis in 2.6.2 for the first time it doesn’t create both tables. If the plugin is deactivated and then reactivated it works as designed. I am jumping 2.6 and design the next version for 2.7.  Hope this helps anyone having issues with the plugin.

As you all know the release of WordPress 2.5.1 has exposed a new bug in my Category Visibility plugin.  It causes the home page to show no results.  Sometimes you need to just step away from the code for a while and then when you come back the answer is so obvious it smacks you right in the face.  The culprit seems to be some left over code from my predecessors that did a check on the query variables before passing to the is_home join.  So the problem was not in the where but the join portion of the code. I haven’t yet tested older systems but it seems to work well with 2.5.1.  In this process I found 3 additional bugs so a more fleshed out version will be available soon.  However, I thought you all want your front pages back first.

Franken CatVis SimpEx plugin

Temporary relief is here in the form of a mashup up of Simple Exclude by Paul Menard  and the List feature of Category Visibility by iPeat.  This is not an official release. Those of you who are brave enough, can try this out until either Paul or I can come up with a plugin answers all your needs.

• I have been trying to figure out what changed from 2.5 to 2.5.1 that has caused my where clause on the home/ main page to break  with little results.  In that time I have found the Simple exclude Plugin by Paul Menard, it accomplish most of the same goals with a very different method.
• To fill the hole that it misses I have mashed in part of my plugin.
• In doing so have found about 3 additional bugs in both mine plugin and his mainly having to do with categories and archives. Plus the absences of managing the Link Categories.

So I post this Alpha Plugin To help you get by

To install please follow these steps:

1. Reactivate Category Visibility if you have deactivated it.
2. Make sure all categories have been checked.
3. Deactivate Category Visibility.
4. Activate the Frankenstein Plugin.
5. List Category Visibilty can be found under Manage.
6. Simple Exclude can be found under Settings.