Exclude category on blog list page
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14-04-2021 - |
Question
I've got a site with a News page (archive for category 'news') and a separate Blog page. When I make a post for the News page I select the category 'news'. So, on the news page you only see the posts marked news, but on the blog page you can see all posts. What I would like to do is preferably show all posts EXCEPT the 'news' posts on the blog page. How do I do this?
<!--post start-->
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<!--post start-->
<div class="post">
<div class="box">
<div class="postimgbox">
<?php if ((function_exists('has_post_thumbnail')) && (has_post_thumbnail())) { ?>
<?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
<?php } else {
}
?>
</div>
<ul class="post_meta">
<li class="post_date"> <?php echo get_the_time('M, d, Y') ?></li>
<li class="post_comment">
<?php comments_popup_link('No Comments.', '1 Comment.', '% Comments.'); ?>
</li>
<br />
<li class="posted_by">
<?php the_author_posts_link(); ?>
</li>
<br />
<li class="post_category">
<?php the_category(', '); ?>
</li>
<br />
</ul>
</div>
<div class="post_content">
<h1 class="post_title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>">
<?php the_title(); ?>
</a></h1>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<a class="read_more" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php _e('Read More', 'infoway'); ?> <span class="button-tip"></span></a> </div>
</div>
<!--End Post-->
Above is the code from blog.php, the php file I am trying to edit as it is the template for my blog page, (if it helps)
Solution 3
Thank you for replying to my question but after trying to do something else I have managed to work out the answer, and what I believe to be the easiest and shortest answer. In the main loop for posting the posts you will see something along the lines of
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
Before this code add in the following line,
<?php query_posts('cat=-4'); ?>
Where 4 is the category id. The - sign means 'not' and is similar to ! in C. This will mean all posts not in category ID 4 will be displayed on that page
OTHER TIPS
From a plugin or your theme's functions.php file:
function wpse106861_mod_query( $query ) {
/* are we on the blog page ? */
if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
/* get ID of news category */
$news_id = get_cat_ID( 'news' );
/* exclude posts in new from query */
$query->set( 'category__not_in' => array( $news_id ) );
}
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'wpse106861_mod_query' );
Update
As for the comment:
is_home
should return true on any blog index page, regardless of whether that's a static page or your front page. You can check for the front page directly as well anyhow, by slightly altering the conditional:
if ( $query->is_front_page() && $query->is_main_query() )
Related Reading
You can do it with pre_get_posts
filter. Do it like this:
function my_exclude_category( $query ) {
if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
$query->set( 'category__not_in', array( 1, 1347 ) ); // where 1 and 1347 are IDs of excluded categories
}
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'my_exclude_category' );
PS. I assume that this Blog page is set as your posts page.