[RitchiebParticipant]

Hello X-theme team,

On my site i have three categories. One of them i don’t want to be shown. On your forum i saw the following lines which would do the trick:

function exclude_category( $query ) {
if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
$query->set( ‘cat’, ‘-1,-1347’ );
}
}
add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘exclude_category’ );

For me it didn’t work. I also tried to specify the actual page where the blog posts are on. I changed
if ( $query->is_home() into if ($query->is_page(196)
But also this didn’t work.

Do you have other solutions?

Thanks,
Richard

[RitchiebParticipant]

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[Paul RModerator]

Hi Richard,

Thanks for writing in!

I tried the code in my local test site and it seems to be working.

You need to replace 1 and 1347 with the categoryid you want to exclude and since you only need one, you can enter just one number.

eg.

function exclude_category( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set( 'cat', '-1' );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category' );

Change 1 with your category id.

Here is how to locate your category ids

https://community.theme.co/kb/how-to-locate-category-ids/

Hope that helps.

[RitchiebParticipant]

Sorry i copy pasted the code from the forum and forgot to mention that i already had changed
$query->set( ‘cat’, ‘-1,-1347’ );
into my category’s id so:
$query->set( ‘cat’, ‘-11’ );

But the category (reviews) still shows.

I als tried it with another of my categories (blogs; id 4) but also that category doesn’t disappear. And with every change, i first emptied the browsers cache.

Plus all of sudden my wp adminbar is gone when viewing the site.

I have checked Cornerstone and there i have “show wordpress toolbar” enabled
And i also have checked the user settings under which i login and also there i have “show toobar while viewing site” enabled.

PS: i left the jQuery untouched so you can see the current settings.

Kind regards
Richard

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[RitchiebParticipant]

A follow up to my message: you can forget the toolbar issue. I t has something to do with a maintenance plugin. For when i disable it, the toolbar is back. So i will have to sort that problem out at the other party.

[JadeModerator]

Hi Richard,

Would you mind providing us with your FTP details so that we can safely revise and test the code?

Thank you.

[RitchiebParticipant]

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[Paul RModerator]

Hi,

Thank you for providing your ftp login.

Upon checking, I can see that you have added the code in the wrong place.

Kindly remove the code in your custom > javascript box in the customizer that reads.

function exclude_category( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set( 'cat', '-11' );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category' );

Then add it in your child theme’s functions.php file instead (wp-content/themes/x-child/functions.php).

Hope that helps.

[RitchiebParticipant]

Okay, i thought that all jQuery had to go in the javascript box in the customizer.

I already have some jQuery there… should i move that over as well?

And about the exclude jQuery: it partly worked. I now haven’t got the review posts (individually) anymore. But i still have them in the category list and in the archive list.
See attached image. And i want them also gone overthere… Do i need an additional jQuery for that?

thanks again
Richard

[RitchiebParticipant]

this is the image in which you can see reviews is still under categories

[DarshanaModerator]

Hi there,

You can use a plugin like Ultimate Category Excluder (https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-category-excluder/) for this. Once you have installed the plugin, you can head over to Settings -> Category Exclusion section and then select the categories that you want to hide.

Hope that helps.

[RitchiebParticipant]

Hi there,

i had already tried that but didn’t work. But i just tried again cause i couldn’t remember how the plugin settings were. But looking at it, there aren’t too many settings, you can’t either enable or disable categories. So i can hardly do anything wrong… hahaha but again: i doesn’t do anything! Maybe that is because the plugin isn’t updated for over two years.

[Rue NelModerator]

Hello There,

To exclude the review posts from your category and other archive pages, please update your code and use this code instead in your child theme’s functions.php file:

function exclude_category( $query ) {
    if ( ( $query->is_home() || $query->is_archive() ) && $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set( 'cat', '-11' );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category' );

We would loved to know if this has work for you. Thank you.

[RitchiebParticipant]

No sorry, didn’t change a thing.

In the mean time while searching the internet i stumbled upon a code which does the job but to a certain extend. I’m not a coder but maybe you guys (and girls?) understand this code and maybe can do some additions to it.

I added the following code at the end of my child’s php file:

add_filter( ‘widget_categories_args’, ‘wpsites_exclude_widget_category’, 11 );
add_filter( ‘widget_categories_dropdown_args’, ‘wpsites_exclude_widget_category’, 11 );
function wpsites_exclude_widget_category( $cat_args ) {
$cat_args[‘exclude’] = array(’11’); //the categories removed
return $cat_args;
}

Under categories, it’s gone… yeah!!! But the reviews posts are still under Archive.
But as i said, you prolly understand the code and know how to add “archive” to it…. or is that too simple to say???? 😉

best regards
Richard

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