PayPerPost announced a their new “Best Practices” which includes not putting posts in separate categories.
Ok, but now what are you going to do? After all, using the “search by category” function on the admin side of your blog helps you easily track of all your paid posts to make sure you got paid, delete if they are rejected, and edit if you are asked to do so.
But now, you can’t let the categories show on the outside of your blog.
Well, the answer is use Hide Sponsored Categories Plugin!
This plugin will:
- Let you create and use WordPress categories for organizational purposes on the admin side of your blog while
- Not having categories on the public visible side of your blog.
This should fulfill the PPP best practices rule because the purpose of that rule is to avoid public displaying of a category that contains a series of posts like this: Paid Post - Paid Post - Paid Post -….- Paid Post - Paid Post - Paid Post. Advertisers don’t like those.
As long as there is no such public category, no-one one cares if you have things conveniently organized on the admin side! To learn more and download the plugin, visit Hide Sponsored Categories Plugin.
You don’t have to hide the PP it’s just a suggested best practice. I follow 99% of their BP’s but this is one I am going to let slip by the wayside. It’s kind of unfair to my readers I think. A little shady.