[Resolved] Display default Blog posts filtered by Category's type

[Eva]

Hi there,

Would you please help me with the piece of code (PHP, CSS?) to filter the default Blog posts based on the Category type?

I’m not a programmer and what I’m trying to achieve is to display the blog posts here based on Category, without a need of using WP Show Posts. I would like to keep using the default blog functions on this page, with a bit more control over the design (buttons, pagination, sidebar widget design) and then use WP Show posts on another page to create a Portfolio/Event calendar by displaying a specific post category type – with a little different layout than blog post. This page can serve as a reference – Blog vs. Events

I believe it should be easily achievable using filters like this one, most likely $options[‘categories’] but I’m giving up on trying longer without coding knowledge 😉

I guess it should be a filter like “if the post category is/is not ‘Podujatie’ then display blog posts” but I also might be totally wrong

The last alternative is to use WP Show posts on both pages but I’d like to keep Blog within the default functionality

Thanks for your help in advance,
Jan

[Leo]

Hi there,

This might help: https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/multiple-static-frontpage-selected-posts-on-frontpage/#post-157558

[Eva]

Hi Leo,

I added the following snippet with Code-snippet but with no success

function exclude_category( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_blog() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set( 'Podujatie', 'podujatie' );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category' );

Any idea what else I could try? Maybe GP Elements may help?

Thank you

[Leo]

I’m confused. So are you trying to exclude category Podujatie from the blog page or only show category Podujatie on the blog page?

[Eva]

My mistake. I wasn’t clear enough. I’m trying to exclude category Podujatie, slug ‘podujatie’ from the Blog page

[Leo]

That case this should be the code:
https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/exclude-category-from-loop/#post-111543

[Eva]

I ended up with the following snippet. The filter add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'excludeCat'); ruined the site speed for some reason

function exclude_category( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set( 'cat', '-7' );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category' );

Thanks for help

[Leo]

No problem 🙂

[Author]

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