The user 45thj5ej wants to hide blog posts from the main forums home page while still keeping them viewable by everyone. The default categories muted setting is not suitable as it causes issues with the Landing Pages plugin and Blog add-on. Lilly suggested two plugins that might solve the issue: discourse-categories-suppressed and discourse-suppress-category-from-latest. 45thj5ej asked about the difference between the two plugins, noting that one is outdated. JammyDodger advised creating test users to see the forums from a non-staff perspective.
So, I have 2 categories: 1 is Blogs and the other is for everything else. I would like the blog posts to still be viewable by everyone, but be hidden from the main forums home page (forums.website.com) [including /latest and /top].
default categories muted setting does not do what I want it to do, btw, because I use Landing Pages plugin + Blog add-on for it, so on my blog landing page, if I mute the category, all the blogs (topics) disappear from the page, which I can’t have, and the topics don’t show under Blog category on forums either if not signed in if they’re muted (not sure if the same for regular non-staff users that are signed in).
Top tip for this - signing up a couple of test users can be a real benefit so you can see what a non-staff account sees/can do. If you use a separate browser or private window you can have both yourself and a test user or two signed in at the same time.
Hi, is there a main difference between the 2? One looks 5yrs outdated and the other is at least slightly more updated I guess?
@JammyDodger Yeah, I’ve been meaning to make a non-staff user but my partner usually checks stuff for me when I ask, haha. And yeah, I usually test everything in a private window.