[Plugin: Smarter Navigation] Trying to exclude categories… using CPT

If you want to exclude categories, exclude them from the initial archive page:

If a user goes to https://yoursite.com/category/parent/ and you make it so that he doesn’t see posts in the child-excluded category, for example, he won’t see them when using the links generated by Smarter Navigation either.

Here’s how you can do that:

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/21341/alternative-to-query-posts-for-main-loop

Hmmm, I think that there might be a misunderstanding, or else I don’t understand WP/php well enough to execute your answer above.
Here’s what I’m trying to do:

next_post_smart('%link', '<', TRUE, '4');
previous_post_smart('%link', '>', TRUE, '4');

So I want Smarter Navigation to navigate through posts of a referrer category, but I want to exclude any posts from the post ID ‘4’ category.

No, I understood what you’re trying to achieve and the way to do it is through WP_Query, since that’s what the Smarter Navigation plugin looks at.

You do have to understand WordPress fairly well to do it, though. Maybe this presentation will help:

I’ll take a look thanks. After thinking more about what you said it sunk in.
Now, I just need to figure out how to use queries.

Shouldn’t this work using below? I tried and it did not…
<?php query_posts($query_string . ‘&cat=-4’); ?>

No, because SN collects the query vars before the template is loaded. It has to because cookies can’t be set once any output is sent to the browser.

Got it working! Thanks. So simple once I got my head around it.

hello @scribu, as you described above, I created a WP_query inside my taxonomy-arquivos.php template with include_children set to false:

$args = array(
		'orderby' => ($term->parent) ? 'date' : 'rand',
		'post_status' => 'publish',
		'tax_query' => array(
			array(
				'taxonomy' => 'arquivos',
				'field' => 'slug',
				'terms' => get_query_var( 'term' ),
				'include_children' => false
			)
		)
	);

	$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );

	while( $the_query->have_posts() ) {

		$the_query->the_post();

But when I click on a post and navigate, I still get some posts of a children taxonomy.