Have you ever used WordPress posts for something other than a blog post? I use them for FAQ pages, but I don’t want the FAQs to show up in the main blog, so I added this into the theme functions.php. It can also be used in a new plugin.
(?? = category id number)
function exclude_category($query) {
if ( $query->is_home )
$query->set('cat', '-??');
return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category');
The minus sign in front of the category id means don’t include.
shyammonk says
August 26, 2010 at 8:29 amThank you Steph for the code. Will use it since i want to keep some categories away from the home page. I was not very sure where to add this code though figured out later! Maybe not many people are WordPress-stupid as I am…
Shyam
nertworks says
November 22, 2011 at 4:08 pmHiya, Thanks for the code, it works perfectly! I was wondering if you also knew how to keep certain categories out of other parts of the website like recent post widgets at the footer and sidebar, etc. Thanks again for your post, best,
Allen
Paul Anning says
January 19, 2012 at 5:35 amThank you so much for sharing this knowledge. It worked perfectly for my needs and saved me a huge headache. Keep up the great work!
Creative Wojtek says
March 31, 2012 at 1:48 pmThanks Steph for sharing – huge help! Working on redesign of my site and this helps me a lot!
Creative Wojtek says
April 7, 2012 at 3:48 amSteph, I had some problems with defining multiple categories using above method and found this (similar) solution – thought I’ll share here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts
I used query_posts( ‘cat=-1,-2,-3’ ) but instead of making new function I placed it in index.php
sarah says
April 13, 2012 at 11:23 amgreat function …. thank you for sharing
Mark says
October 2, 2012 at 11:50 amAhh… Nope!
This blew up my database!
Thanks for that!!
MWH
Youssef says
February 3, 2013 at 6:15 pmthanks for the tip, I just wanted to say that there is a more simple way to don’t show a page in the main blog. You can, for example, create your own menu, then your FAQ/else.. page and exclude it from the menu, so it’s accessible but not in the nav bar
no says
March 10, 2015 at 11:48 amthis is wrong:
function exclude_category($query) {
if ( $query->is_home )
$query->set(‘cat’, ‘-??’);
return $query;
}
add_filter(‘pre_get_posts’, ‘exclude_category’);
should be:
function exclude_category($query) {
if ( $query->is_home() ) //is_home is a function
$query->set(‘cat’, ‘-??’);
return $query;
}
add_filter(‘pre_get_posts’, ‘exclude_category’);
Santosh says
September 24, 2015 at 11:42 pmGreat! Thanks a lot!
Nitai roy says
December 14, 2015 at 11:43 pmIs there any plugin to hide category name instead of code.?