=== Advanced Category Excluder ===
Contributors: DjZoNe
Donate link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=djzone@cracker.hu&item_name=Advanced%20Category%20Excluder%20for%20Wordpress
Tags: posts, feed, rss, category, list, archives, dashboard, manage, plugin, sidebar, widget
Requires at least: 2.3
Tested up to: 2.6
Stable tag: 1.2.3

The No.1 plugin to enable CMS like functionality, content separation, and create real sub pages, from traditional categories.

== Description ==

This plugin was born because there was a no other real alternative to enable **CMS like functionality** in WordPress.
The main goal was, to enhance WordPress’s functionalities, to hide some unwanted categories, from defined parts of the blog.

Today, it can override your search results, your RSS feed listing, your category listing, and also your entry page, if you want to. This is great, for SEO reasons, for content separation, for grouping information, and handle them as real sub pages.

**[Download now!](http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/advanced-category-excluder.1.2.3.zip)**

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Some functions:

 * Effective category management
 * Enables **CMS-like** functionality
 * **RSS feed** manipulation
 * Search result manipulation
 * Category list manipulation
 * Support for **Event Calendar**
 * Support for admin menu modifier plugins, such as **Admin Drop Down Menu, Fluency Admin ** 
 * Handles multiple link categories
 * **WordPress 2.3** compatible
 * Own **Recent Comments, Recent Posts and Categories widgets** have been added 
 * Backward SQL compatibility with **MySQL 4.0**
 * Nice control panel, called **ACE Dashboard**
 * Localization added (swedish and hungarian translation included)
 * Bundeled POT file for translators 

== Screenshots ==
1. ACE Dashboard - Settings screen
2. ACE Dashboard - Categories screen

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Does this plugin affect my category listing on the sidebar?  =

Let's say yes, and no.

From version 1.2.3 we have an **ACE Categories** widget that you can use in your sidebar, to replace the original one.

This widget shows only the categories you want.

If you do not have widgets, your categories might be excluded properly. It depends on your theme, your category listing settings, and so forth.

= Does this plugin support widgets ?  =

Well, yes and no again :)

It does not support the original WordPress widgets.

But, in the Plugins tab, you can enable our own widgets, that will do the same, as the original ones, but, your exclude options will affect them.

= Does this plugin works with WordPress 2.3 ?  =

Yes, it does :)

= Does this plugin works with older versions of WordPress ?  =

First of all, I suggest you to take the effort, and upgrade, due to security reasons. 

But yes we have the older WP users in our mind, while we develope this plugin.

= Does this plugin works for tags?  =

Not yet ;)
But in the future it will :)

== Installation ==

1. Upload `advanced_category_excluder.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. Set customize the settings, under ACE menu Settings tab