Filtering categories off the main page

  • Alright im having trouble figuring this one out. If I do the following code it doesnt work, is there something specific in your template causing to not to work properly?

    <?php
function exclude_category($query) {
if ( $query->is_home() )
{
$query->set('cat', '-1');
} 

return $query;
} 

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

    Anyways the above code should remove category one from the home but it doesnt work.

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  • Thread Starter foodada

    (@foodada)

    NM I went a different route using this in the template file

    $main_categories = get_categories( array(
	'taxonomy' => 'category',
	'parent' => 0,
	'hide_empty' => 0,
	'exclude' =>'1',
) );

    Excellent. Worked like a charm for me.
    After adding a child theme, I added the one bottom line to that which already existed in the template-knowledgebase.php fie.

    Hi all,

    Does anyone know how to achieve this with the number of articles under each category on the main page?
    For example I would only like to show x amount of articles under each category?
    At the moment the default seems to be to show 10

    Thanks in advance.

    Thread Starter foodada

    (@foodada)

    settings> reading > Blog pages show at most

    Change the default 10 to whatever you want.

    Thread Starter foodada

    (@foodada)

    Josh, you can also make page template doing the same thing. I found this to make my site more user friendly. I could then group my categories according to that page.

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