Remove my Twitter Tools tweets from my main blog page
It’s been a long time since I posted a blog entry. Chalk it up to being super busy at work, selling our home, preparing to move, and spring. I noticed that my the main page of my blog was top heavy with the weekly tweets posted by from the Twitter Tools plugin. Why do I have my tweets show up on my blog? No particular reason, but I figured that it sounded like a good social networking thing to do.
As it was looking like my blog consisted of nothing but tweets, I wanted to hide my weekly tweet posts (from Twitter Tools) from my main blog page. I still wanted them available for search engines, or if someone just wants to see my tweetroll (hey baby … want to see my tweetroll?) (did I just coin a new word? – A google search indicates I did not).
After poking around on google and the WordPress site, I figured out a pretty easy way to do what I wanted.
- Download and install the Advanced Category Excluder plugin
- Put all of your Twitter Tools weekly digests in a category if their own (tweets)
- Set incoming Twitter Tools weekly digest posts to post to the new category
- In the ACE settings select the Twitter Tools weekly digest category on the Home column
Once these steps are completed, your tweet digest posts are no longer visible on the main page.
The next step for me was to create a page for my tweet digest posts.
- Create a page (I named mine My Tweets)
- On the page, include only the URL of that category (mine is http://blog.sidboswell.com/category/tweets)
- Assign it a template type of Redirect
That’s all that I needed to do. You can tweak the settings of ACE pretty easily to hide or un-hide your tweet digest posts from widgets and plugins where appropriate.
