I discovered a wordpress plugin today called Advanced Category Excluder which facilitates a need I have regarding my RSS feed; My blog is syndicated to my Facebook page and I am concerned that some of my drafted posts are just a bit too long and techie for a Facebook audience (they probably won’t do my street cred much good either) and so I’ve been looking for a way to exclude certain posts (besides waiting for Facebook to syndicate and then deleting them before anyone sees them) and ACE fits the bill. Now I can chose to exclude certain categories (and soon tags) from the RSS feed (as well as other options) which will stop them popping up on Facebook. Just like this post 
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It does have some limitations though. In order to exclude a post, it must only be listed under categories that are excluded otherwise it will still show up. It does also mean that anyone who uses an RSS reader to view my blog, whom I would normally want to see my techie posts will also not see them. It would really have been better to implement this at the Facebook end of the chain, but I’ve not found anything that does the trick thus far. If anyone comes across a Facebook crapplication that does this please let me know.
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