Blog Archive Layout with Condition - Not all posts displayed on first page

[ronaldo304]

Hi there, I have 2 questions:

1. I have created a blog archive with the layout builder. WP read setting for posts is 9 items, the Looper Consumer is set to “All”. Works fine. But I don’t want posts of a category (News) to be displayed, because I have a separate layout for this category. The condition is: “Post (has) term - has not - News”. Works fine and no posts from the category News are displayed. But as soon as I specify this condition, only 5 articles (from the other categories) are displayed on the first page of the blog archive, although there are more articles on the following page. The same thing happens when I exclude another category via the condition.

2. I have added some term buttons. When you click on them, you only see articles from that category. Since “News” is also a category, the button for “News” is also shown. How is it possible to exclude the button of this category?

Thanks for the help.

[ruenel]

Hello @ronaldo304,

Thanks for writing in!

Using this condition in your Blog index layout will only hide away the post item/s.

It will not modify the WordPress loop. The WordPress loop STILL returns 9 items but then you have added a condition not to show the post with the News category. This is why only 8 items were displayed.

If you truly want to exclude the News category from the blog index, you will have to modify the WordPress Loop. Please check out this article instead:

• https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-exclude-a-category-from-your-wordpress-homepage/

Kindly let us know how it goes.

[ronaldo304]

Hi, Thanks.
hm, that’s pretty weird. What sense does it make in this case to hide a category “visually” but not “physically”? Anyway. I put the php code in the function.php and it works. So other than additional extra php code there is no way with on-board resources to hide a category with Pro, is that correct?

What about my 2nd question, the category buttons? This is a looper provider “All terms”, taxonomy “categories”.
Thank you.

[tristup]

Hi @ronaldo304,

You need to use the condition where you are showing the Categories to exclude the specific category as shown in the given screenshot.

I have also created a Test page with a similar condition, you can replicate the same wherever it is needed.

Hope it helps.
Thanks

[ronaldo304]

Thank you very much @tristup

That was the hint in the right direction. I had to make some adjustments for the buttons. With your setting - column is looper and consumer at the same time - the category “News” is no longer visible, but the empty div container was still visible in the source code.

For other forum users - here are settings for a term / category button loop and exclude a special defined category.

[tristup]

Hi @ronaldo304,

Glad that we are able to help you with this. And thanks for that you shared the solution with others.