[stephennorbrookParticipant]

This has be perplexed. I am trying to perform what I thought was a straight forward task. It wasn’t:

I am using the Essential Grid to display products. The products are saved as posts on my site. Each post is assigned to several categories.

I used the ‘source’ feature of Essential Grid to pull all the required posts from my site – I choose ‘post types, ‘portfolio Item’ and the relevant ‘post categories’. All worked well so far. I had a product page full of posts.

The issue is with the cross over posts (those assigned to multiple categories, which fall into categories I do not want but which also end up in categories I require). I need to select most categories, as I require them to be available in the filter function. All online advise pointed to using the Additional Parameters feature to exclude categories I didn’t want, which would remove portfolio Items which fall into the excluded categories (in theory). This is where it all fell apart. I have tried the following:

‘category__not_in=23’

$query = new WP_Query( array( ‘cat’ => ‘-12,-34,-56’ ) );

I have also read the information on “post__not_in” for Excluding Individual Posts from Grid but this is not practical with many portfolio items across many categories. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

p.s. great theme. best interface I have used.

[RupokMember]

Hi there,

Thanks for writing in! The version of Essential Grid included with the theme is an unmodified version of the plugin and we can’t control any feature or functionality of that. When we are okay with some cosmetic changes, we can’t really assist on such customization as it’s out of our support scope. You could follow the documentation if you find anything – http://essential.themepunch.com/documentation/

Thanks for understanding.

[stephennorbrookParticipant]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. I am not sure I understand your reply. The code I sent you is from WordPress directly and is common for standard filters. I need confirmation if the X theme overwrites this which would explain why it is not working?

Please be advised, I am using the theme straight out of the box, as purchased 2 days ago, with no third party plugins which were not included in the extension folder. I also deactivated all plugins to test but no success.

[RadModerator]

Hi there,

X don’t have the ability to change those filters. Each query is local to their loop unless, unless overridden by pre_get_posts filter, but X don’t have that.

Would you mind providing your site’s URL and admin login credentials in private reply? It could be a cache.

Thanks!

[Amma1Participant]

Hi,

I am curious about this too? Did you manage to sort it out. It seems like it should be a simple thing to do.

Thanks

[RadModerator]

Hi Amma,

The issue is not clear and we don’t have any particular solution yet, but I can check it for you. Would you mind starting a new thread while linking back here and provide your site’s URL and admin login credentials?

Thanks!

[stephennorbrookParticipant]

Hi Amma, did you get a solution for this?

[stephennorbrookParticipant]

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[LelyModerator]

Hi Stephen,

Please do share your admin credentials on a private reply. Then also give us detailed description on what you want to achieve so we can help you better.

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