Excluding category

[krabban333]

How do I exclude a category from showing in the portfolio?
I’ve tried changing stuff around in the WP_Query, but I can’t seem to get the regular category exclude to work.

Here’s the query:
// PORTFOLIO QUERY SETUP
global $post, $wp_query;
$portfolio_args=array(
‘post_type’ => ‘portfolio’,
‘post_status’ => ‘publish’,
‘paged’ => $page,
‘portfolio-category’ => $category_slug,
‘posts_per_page’ => $item_count
);
$portfolio_items = new WP_Query( $portfolio_args )

Any tips?
Thanks!

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Hi,

Not 100% sure it will work, give a try just add your Portfolio category slugs that you want to exclude in this line.
'terms' => array( 'cat-name' ),

Copy this code below to your functions.php

function search_filter_get_posts($query) {
    if ( !$query->is_search )
        return $query;

    $taxquery = array(
        array(
            'taxonomy' => 'portfolio-category',
            'field' => 'slug',
            'terms' => array( 'cat-name' ),
            'operator'=> 'NOT IN'
        )
    );

    $query->set( 'tax_query', $taxquery );

}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'search_filter_get_posts' );

Let us know the result.

-Rui

[krabban333]

Works like a charm! Thanks!

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Great. I’m always afraid of that filter 🙂

-Rui

[theFencer]

It doesn’t work for me!
I created a child theme and added that function to the newly created functions.php

Is it correct?

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

@theFencer

Yes, it’s suppose to.
Can you provide me admin credentials to have a look at your functions.php of the child theme?

-Rui

[theFencer]

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[theFencer]

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[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

@theFencer thanks
Looking at your code I can confirm that the slug hall-of-fame doesn’t exist has a portfolio category.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/93yh6uv3jeder5d/Screenshot%202016-10-11%2014.23.43.png?dl=0

What are you trying to achieve exactly?

-Rui

[theFencer]

Well, I just wanted to exclude the articles of category hall-of-fame from the blog (menu: news).
Viceversa, I want to leave these articles in the hall of fame menu page.

Perhaps the attached screenshots explain better than words…

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[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

ok, the code I provide was to exclude portfolio categories that’s the difference.

I already changed this line of code
'taxonomy' => 'portfolio-category',
to this one
'taxonomy' => 'category',

Check if it works.

-Rui

[theFencer]

Strangely it doesn’t (the article is still visible in both pages).
Should I put this filter somewhere?

[theFencer]

Hi Rui, do you have news for me?

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Will need ftp to try some things.
can you send it in a private reply.

-Rui

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