do I just paste the code in functions.php?

  • I see a lot of tutorials like this,

    https://zeo.unic.net.my/exclude-category-in-wordpress/

    that say to just paste a code anywhere in the funtions.php but when I do that the code either appears as body text on all my pages or a I get some scary error

    My functions.php only has this

    <?php
 if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
 register_sidebar();
?>

    and I’m trying to add this

    function exclude_category($query) {
	if ( $query->is_feed ) {
		$query->set('cat', '-5');
	}
return $query;
}

add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category');

    Please help! I must be doing something wrong..

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  • Are you putting it inside of the <?php and ?> tags? Your modified file should look like

    <?php
 if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
 register_sidebar();

function exclude_category($query) {
	if ( $query->is_feed ) {
		$query->set('cat', '-5');
	}
return $query;
}

add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category');
?>

    Let me know if that helps!

    hi virgild,

    what micahcooksey is telling correct. can you specify what scary errors you are getting so that we can solve it…

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