Bubbling up behavior

Wood · Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 21

I have my posts set to bubble up by default so that, say, posts in the gaming category also show on the main page. I don't want posts in the adult category to show up on the main page though, but I don't want to create a restricted group per se.

It seems logical to me that if I set a category to suppress bubbling then all the sub-categories below it should not bubble up to the main page, yet they do. Example: I have the category Cooking, with the sub-categories Thai and Korean. I want these subs to appear on the Cooking category page, but NOT on the main page. I set Cooking to suppress bubbling and the sub categories SHOULD appear on the Cooking page but nowhere above it. My experience however, is non-intuitive: the sub-categories still appear on the main page, unless I make the main page suppress bubbling which means that everything not specifically posted to the main page is then suppressed.

I need help with this.

Sorry about the nonsensical rambling of this query, it's late and I am very tired. Thanks.

john · Site Admin Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 3434

Great question. You are correct, even though you may configure the Cooking category to suppress bubbling, the articles do bubble up 'past' that category and up into its parent, the Main Page.

We're going to dig deeper into this feature and see if there's any way it can be improved upon.

Wood · Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 21

Yeah, that was kind of making me crazy. It's a great feature, but doesn't work the way I thought it would. Basically I want to be able to put adult oriented stuff on my blog but keep it off the main page without having to supress other categories as well. For my two cents, I'd like to see it work as more of a "go this high and no higher" sort of filter.

It's an insanely great idea, I just wish it worked a little differently Smile

70sFlashback · Joined: 23 Oct 2004 Posts: 40

Am I correct in understanding that "bubbling up" is a way to publish articles to a specific category ( I like to think of them as channels because of the dynamic RSS generation) so that you don't have to assign it to multiple categories yet have it visible at the top "overall"?

I am also correct in understanding that the "suppress" is the opposite of this and that the issue here is that suppression works withing a category but not overall while does work overall?

Thanks!

john · Site Admin Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 3434

70sFlashback · Joined: 23 Oct 2004 Posts: 40

Go it. Thanks!