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[fatcatgraphics]

Hi, I want to omit one category from showing up on my blog page. How do i do this?
This is my site: http://bd2.d9b.myftpupload.com/blog/
I have a news page and a blog page. So i don’t want the news posts showing up on the blog.

Thanks for your help. Also if it requires editing the functions.php file can you give me a little direction on how to do this? Do i go into filezilla to edit it and if so do i add the code to the bottom or top?

Thank you!
Rena

[Rue Nel]

Hello Rena,

Thanks for writing in! To resolve your issue and exclude posts with News as the category, please add the following code in your child theme’s functions.php file

// Exclude posts that has Events and Sermon category from the blog index
// =============================================================================
function exclude_category( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set( 'cat', '-13' );
    }
}
//add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category' );
// =============================================================================

Please make sure that you replace 26 with the correct category ID of News. To know how to get the category ID, please check this out: https://community.theme.co/kb/how-to-locate-category-ids/

Hope this helps

[fatcatgraphics]

Thank you for your help.. you say to replace the 26 with the correct ID. I don’t see a 26 in the code. I see a 13.. The post ID is actually 13 so I left it as is. But I see no change. Does it take time?

Thanks
Rena

[Thai]

Hi There,

Please update the previous code to this:

// Exclude posts that has Events and Sermon category from the blog index
// =============================================================================
function exclude_category( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set( 'cat', '-13' );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category' );
// =============================================================================

Hope it helps 🙂

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