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Earlier I posted a test entry in Chinese, in UTF8. Eventually I hope to create a new blog in Chinese; for now, I just want to play, so I made a category in this blog for entries in Chinese specifically.

The main feed for this blog contains the entries for the last ten days in reverse chronological order. Now, I imagine that most of the present readership of this blog do not read Chinese, so I decided to make the main feed skip that particular category.

As it happens, it was easily done: The COREblog method used by the main feed is 'rev_day_entry_items()', which signature looks like this:

rev_day_entry_items(self,count=1,start_year=0,start_month=0,start_day=0)

The actual call looks like this:

<dtml-in "rev_day_entry_items(count=top_days)">
 ...
</dtml-in>

I wanted the output of this method to skip certain categories, so I added a keyword parameter to the signature, making this thus:

rev_day_entry_items(self,count=1,start_year=0,start_month=0,start_day=0,skip_cat=[])

'skip_cat' is a list of category ids to skip. The method body is changed to add a test for non-membership in skip_cat, a one-liner mod.

The call becomes this:

<dtml-in "rev_day_entry_items(count=top_days,skip_cat=['13'])">
 ...
</dtml-in>

Voila! (I say that a lot on this blog. ;-) The main feed now skips the Chinese category. For the interested party, here is the Chinese entries-only feed.