Categories [adverts_list]

Add in your theme functions.php the code below

add_filter( 'shortcode_atts_adverts_list', 'my_adverts_list_category_exclude_atts', 10, 3 );
function my_adverts_list_category_exclude_atts( $out, $pairs, $atts ) {
    if( ! isset( $atts["_category_exclude"] ) ) {
        $atts["_category_exclude"] = null;
    }
    
    $out["_category_exclude"] = $atts["_category_exclude"];
    return $out;
}
add_filter( "adverts_list_query", "my_adverts_list_category_exclude", 10, 2 );
function my_adverts_list_category_exclude( $args, $params ) {
    if( isset( $params["_category_exclude"] ) ) {
        if( ! isset( $args["taxonomy"] ) || ! is_array( $args["taxonomy"] ) ) {
            $args["tax_query"] = array();
        }
        $args["tax_query"][] = array(
            'taxonomy' => 'advert_category',
            'field'    => 'term_id',
            'terms'    => $params["_category_exclude"],
            'operator' => 'NOT IN',
	    );
    }
    return $args;
}

Then you will be able to use the [adverts_list] as

[adverts_list _exclude_category="50" allow_sorting="1" order_by="date-desc" ]

This will list Ads from all categories except the category with ID = 50.

Ok thank you for this. We gave this a go, function in the child themes functions.php file and it does not seem to work, the category was still showing in the list with the page implementing:

[adverts_list _exclude_category=”50″ allow_sorting=”1″ order_by=”date-desc” ]

Our example:

Motor Section (id = 60)
– Motor Cars (id = 50)
– Motor Commercial (id= 55)

We just want to exclude both the Motor categories (50, 55) from the All Custom [adverts_list].

Thanks
J

I am testing this function right now and it seems to be working fine for me.

Before the line return $args; add

echo "<pre>"; 
print_r($args); 
print_r($params);
echo "</pre>";

refresh the page you should see the debug output, copy it and paste here.

Ok here is the debug output..

Array
(
    [author] => 
    [post_type] => advert
    [post_status] => publish
    [posts_per_page] => 20
    [paged] => 1
    [s] => 
    [meta_query] => Array
        (
        )

    [tax_query] => 
    [orderby] => Array
        (
            [date] => DESC
        )

)
Array
(
    [name] => default
    [author] => 
    [redirect_to] => 
    [search_bar] => enabled
    [show_results] => 1
    [category] => 
    [columns] => 3
    [display] => grid
    [switch_views] => grid
    [allow_sorting] => 1
    [order_by] => date-desc
    [paged] => 1
    [posts_per_page] => 20
    [show_pagination] => 1
    [_category_exclude] => 
    [list_type] => all
)

Use the shortcode as

[adverts_list _category_exclude="50" allow_sorting="1" order_by="date-desc" ]

In the example i posted earlier there is param _exclude_category instead of _category_exclude.

ah yea easy to miss .. So that works now. Is it possible to exclude two categories or is it limited to excluding one category?

Thanks
J

You can change the line 'terms' => $params["_category_exclude"], to

'terms'    => array_map( "absint", explode( ",", $params["_category_exclude"] ) ),

then in the shortcode list the excluded categories separated by coma, like this

_category_exclude="50,100,150"

Hi

Thank you for this much appreciated..

Thanks
J