Category posts not showing on posts , slider and every place

Hi poojaindia. If you can post a link to your site, indicating which categories are supposed to be displayed where, we can take a look at it and see if we can determine the issue.

hey @bdbrown

the link is Travel Jots.com (remove spaces).

I wish to display category post (Travel Hacking) on secondary sidebar. But no matter Whichever category I select, Hueman Posts and Hueman Tabs just show recent posts.

I wish to display category post (Travel Hacking) on secondary sidebar.

Every post displayed in the secondary sidebar is in category “Travel Hacking”.

Hi there

No, It is showing only recent posts.

Don’t be misled with heading of sidebar Which I have kept travel hacking).

The posts below are all recent posts and not specific to category.

Regards

Open each one of the posts in your “Travel Hacking” sidebar. Just above the post content, the page title shows the post categories. Every one of those posts shows category “Travel Hacking” in the page title. Go to your menu and open the Travel Hacking category link. You’ll see the same posts in the category page that are displayed in the sidebar.

Ok I have checkout the thing. It is quite surprising.

That on the main page of website, secondary sidebar is showing recent posts. But on all other pages it is showing category posts.

Then my guess would be that you have a different widget area assigned to the home page, and the Hueman Posts widget in that sidebar doesn’t have a category assigned.

Hi

I tried removing the widgets altogether and setting them again. I sincerely feel that there is no issue with the theme as such. And there is an issue with my child theme. As I have tried the same thing in parent theme and found it to be working fine.

So I removed the following code from functions.php in my child theme

/* exclude specific category from WordPress loop */
function my_exclude_category( $wp_query ) {
  if( is_main_query() && is_home() ) {
    $wp_query->set( 'cat', '-56' );
  }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'my_exclude_category' );

However, this code was added there in functions.php to exclude a particular category (misc category) for not showing on Main Page. I don’t know why it is interfering with other widgets. And I would definitely want to keep that functionality as well.

As of now, I have simply removed this piece of coe. Can you suggest me how to edit this code as to not affect all other things.

Regards

Let’s make a slight modification to your function and see if that fixes it.
Change this line:

if( is_main_query() && is_home() ) {

to this:

if ( $wp_query->is_front_page() && $wp_query->is_main_query() ) {

See if that modifies only the main posts list and not the widgets.

Thanks