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[markusp80]

Hi!

I am wondering if there is a way to exclude certain blog categories from all places, for example:
– the latest blog posts on the start page
– the blog start page/blog feed
– the side widget

I’ve found some simple plugins but they only exclude the chosen category from the blog start page/blog feed.

Help appreciated!

/Markus

[Thai]

Hi Markus,

Please add the following code under functions.php file locates in your child theme:

function exclude_category( $query ) {
    if ( !is_admin() ) {
      $query->set( 'cat', '-123,-456' );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category' );

Replace 123, 456 with your category ID.

Let us know how it goes!

[markusp80]

Not too well!

Got this error message:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘&’ in /customers/1/f/a/markusp.se/httpd.www/wp-content/themes/x-child/functions.php on line 56

I want to remove category ID 342. But I pasted the text exactly as your wrote it and just changed the numbers to 342 and 337 to try it out. Like this:

function exclude_category( $query ) {
if ( !is_admin() ) {
$query->set( 'cat', '-342,-337' );
}
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category' );

/Markus

[markusp80]

My bad!

It got a bit weird when I copied the text from my e-mail, then it looked like in the attached image with all the & #039 and stuff. But now it works exactly as I want to, thank you very much!

[Thai]

Glad it worked 🙂

Next time, you should copy the code from the forum.

[markusp80]

Will do! 🙂

[Lely]

Cheers!
Feel free to open a new thread again if you still have questions.

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