Now I will share with you what the plugin author says about this plugin and hopefully it will help you to understand this plugin more because I honestly couldn't explain it any better myself!
In particular, this plugin allows you to control the visibility of a post in various different views:
The Front Page (Homepage, depending on your theme, this may not be relevant)
The Category Page (listing the posts belonging to a category)
The Tag Page (listing the posts tagged with a given tag)
The Authors Page (listing the posts belonging to an author)
The Archive Pages (listing the posts belonging to time period: month, week, day, etc..)
The Search Results
Feeds
The posts will disappear from the places you choose them to disappear. Everywhere else they will show up as regular posts. In particular, permalinks of the posts still work, and if you generate a sitemap, with something like the Google XML Sitemaps the post will be there as well. This means that the content of your post will be indexed and searchable by search engines.
For a WordPress page, this plugin also allows you to control the visibility with two options:
Hide a page on the front page (homepage) only.
Hide a page everywhere in the blog (hiding the page in the search results is optional).
This means, technically, whenever pages are listed somewhere using the get_pages filter, this plugin will kick in and either filter it out or not according to the options you choose. The same rules apply regarding permalinks and sitemaps as they do for regular posts.
"WP Hide Post" plugin is a great tool in your arsenal for SEO optimization. It allows you to add plenty of content to your blog, without forcing you to change the nature and presentation of your front page, for example. You can now create content that you otherwise would be reluctant to add to your blog because it would show immediately on the front page, or somewhere else where it would not belong. It's a must-have feature of WordPress."
I'll take you through how I'll be using this gem of a plugin for my Niche.
"This plugin excels in giving you full control over the visibility of your a post. By default, any post you add to your WordPress blog will become the topmost post, and will show up immediately on the front page in the first position, and similarly in category/tag/archive pages. Sometimes, you want to create a "low-profile" addition to your blog that doesn't belong on the front page, or maybe you don't want it to show up anywhere else in your blog except when you explicitly link to it. This plugin allows you to create such "hidden gems".
In particular, this plugin allows you to control the visibility of a post in various different views:
The Front Page (Homepage, depending on your theme, this may not be relevant)
The Category Page (listing the posts belonging to a category)
The Tag Page (listing the posts tagged with a given tag)
The Authors Page (listing the posts belonging to an author)
The Archive Pages (listing the posts belonging to time period: month, week, day, etc..)
The Search Results
Feeds
The posts will disappear from the places you choose them to disappear. Everywhere else they will show up as regular posts. In particular, permalinks of the posts still work, and if you generate a sitemap, with something like the Google XML Sitemaps the post will be there as well. This means that the content of your post will be indexed and searchable by search engines.
For a WordPress page, this plugin also allows you to control the visibility with two options:
Hide a page on the front page (homepage) only.
Hide a page everywhere in the blog (hiding the page in the search results is optional).
This means, technically, whenever pages are listed somewhere using the get_pages filter, this plugin will kick in and either filter it out or not according to the options you choose. The same rules apply regarding permalinks and sitemaps as they do for regular posts.
"WP Hide Post" plugin is a great tool in your arsenal for SEO optimization. It allows you to add plenty of content to your blog, without forcing you to change the nature and presentation of your front page, for example. You can now create content that you otherwise would be reluctant to add to your blog because it would show immediately on the front page, or somewhere else where it would not belong. It's a must-have feature of WordPress."
I'll take you through how I'll be using this gem of a plugin for my Niche.
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shelley8492
Premium
I'm on my next lesson of authorship. Some of my pages are showing up with authorship, though it says "no excerpt is showing...". Do I need to add descriptions to my pages for that to change? Maybe I missed that in earlier training. Next thing- some of my "pages" are really categories. I felt a set up that way was best for me for exactly the reason you mentioned in this video. I noticed if I check authorship in the snippet tool for a place where blog posts will go - http://flowerphotographyfordummies.com/category/learning-flower-photography it does not have authorship, but if I take out the word "category" in the URL it does. Since most of my posts will be in categories and not pages, how could I set this up so I receive authorship on my blogs, or do we really only need it on a page? I don't think I will be adding any blogs to my pages, only the categories. Does this make sense?
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reefswimmer
Premium
hey, thx so much for this ! Lots of details I will find helpful.
When I read the first page---your intro--I wanted to insert just one thought. Moving content around, between blog and website for instance, I do think we have to be super-careful not to create duplicate content by mistake or simply by being unaware. . You know how deeply Google despises duplicate content, and what happens to websites when people do that. Sometimes people don't even realize that a blog IS a website.
I'm really no expert, but I do think this awareness is important. Agree?
When I read the first page---your intro--I wanted to insert just one thought. Moving content around, between blog and website for instance, I do think we have to be super-careful not to create duplicate content by mistake or simply by being unaware. . You know how deeply Google despises duplicate content, and what happens to websites when people do that. Sometimes people don't even realize that a blog IS a website.
I'm really no expert, but I do think this awareness is important. Agree?
slayton1s
Premium
I haven't read it all to be honest, but nice post. I know this is just 1 method of doing things that is more oriented towards keeping things simple for your reader. A good example of a website that doesn't keep it simple for your readers & does the exact opposite of what this is teaching is http://ivetriedthat.com/ (lol). You have to weed out the 400+ posts he has on his website and figure out everything that's on it, which can take days without buying his products directly. I'll save this & go back to it later. I see you've found a few other plugins besides the Exclude Pages one.
Yes but the main issues with the others is they haven't been updated to work in the latest upgrades to Wordpress. Sometimes it's difficult to keep up with Wordpress because they're always making changes! Someday I will learn how to make plugins...once I get a steady income from this business! His website is disorganized but you know, at least he has the content and has the solutions out there whenever he decides to look for them ^_^
slayton1s
Premium
Hey Kara, that's cool you're wanting to make plugins in the future. My plan was to make a few plugins in the future too when I started understanding more about computer language. I'm pretty sure most of the plugins are built around PHP, so you'd have to learn all about that.
- http://www.php.net/
Is a great site I found for learning this on your own time anyway. :) If you need help with something too, just send me a message. I know a lot about Internet Marketing.
- http://www.php.net/
Is a great site I found for learning this on your own time anyway. :) If you need help with something too, just send me a message. I know a lot about Internet Marketing.
