Comments on: Excluding certain categories from your blog main page

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:55:24 +0000

Thanks Patrik. I have consolidated your comments into one

By: Patrik

Patrik — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:02:37 +0000

I wanted to exclude a category with working pagination. After alot of struggle I ended up posting this code before The Loop in index.php (or any other template):

query_posts(‘cat=-1′.’&paged=’.$paged);
// This code removes category 1.

query_posts(‘cat=1,2,3′.’&paged=’.$paged);
// This code shows category 1, 2 & 3.

By: Terry of Astoria

Terry of Astoria — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:42:35 +0000

I found that method two worked for me, but only after I changed the double quote marks to single ones,like this:
as the codex said here: http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop And hey, the drawback mentioned in the article for method 2 where the posts will be displayed anyway if they are also in another category did not affect my blog. They were excluded if they were in my excluded category even if they were in another category as well, which is fine for what I want! I am using a modified redline theme made from wp-framework and I’m running the newest WP as of now, 2.9.1. Thanks for the great post!

By: Noelley

Noelley — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:50:56 +0000

Oops, I meant to say “Method 2,” since I also found the display gaps unacceptable. Again, thank you!

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:29:14 +0000

You are most welcome of course.

By: Noelley

Noelley — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:22:49 +0000

Thank you so much!!! I tried several methods, including a plugin or two, and nothing worked. Your Method 1 worked perfectly, and took less than a minute to implement.

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:58:48 +0000

Dropped you an email

By: Jannes

Jannes — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:56:47 +0000

Oh, boy… big apologies:
?php if(!is_category(array(1,2,3)) {query_posts(‘cat=-4′);} ?

By: Jannes

Jannes — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:55:41 +0000

Sorry, code didn’t get through…

By: Jannes

Jannes — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:54:37 +0000

Hi Vaibhav

This is what I have put together sofar:
[code] [/code]

Exclude posts in cat 4 from frontpage, but not if the post has more than one category to it.

Do you have any suggestions/advice?

Thanks!

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:50:45 +0000

Hi TBG,

Can you try this outside the is_home() function? I am not sure why this shouldn’t work.

Cheers.

By: TBG

TBG — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:53:13 +0000

?php if (is_home()) {
query_posts($query_string . “&cat=-40″);
}
?
?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?

By: TBG

TBG — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:52:45 +0000

whoops, code didnt post:

By: TBG

TBG — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:52:13 +0000

Hey, I’m posting your code before my loop starts but nothing happens… Can you explain why the category I specify isnt being excluded? here is my code:

[code]

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By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:54:03 +0000

Hi Ryan, I am not so sure on why it is not working (I have a migraine right now, so I might just be brain dead)…

Have you tried hard coding the category id that you are trying to exclude (just so that we know there is nothing wrong with the .get_option() function?