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Great! It worked like a charm.

What I wanted to do, was the posts from the diary to appear only on this page and not to make it to the front page. So I went looking for plugins.

The first one that I found was ShowOnFrontPage plugin by Richard Goodwin. Downloaded, installed, activated and tested it.

It worked great. However there was a problem with my feed. The posts from diary still appeared  in the main feed of this blog.

This prety much defeated the purpose I installed this plungin in the first place. I only want the readers who look for this diary, to access it. The posts here are very raw. I do little or no editing and proof reading here. I want to be able to post quickly and anything I want here. If these types of posts appear in the main feed, it will get crappy and cluttered pretty fast.

So I went looking for another fix - how to exclude Diary category from the main feed.  Browsed through various plugin directories and did not find anything. Then, through BloggingPro I got onto Semiologic site and found another great plugin - Opt-in Front Page. I deactivated ShowOnFrontPage, installed, activated and tested this one.

Problem solved.

Well. Almost. Now there’s no feed for this Category at all.

Oh well, I think I will get to go and look for another fix. This plugin might help, but user instructions are in Spanish. I installed it and tried to see what it can do, but did not find anything. So I deactivated it for now.

I’ll see what I can do about the separate Diary  feed later.