[Resolved] Exclude Post Category From Block Element

[Christian]

Hi team!

I’m using a Block Element - Content Template in location Blog All Archives to display the latest blog posts in “Blog Archive Cards” but I’m having a bit of trouble figuring out how to exclude certain categories from showing.

[David]

Hi there,

are you wanting to remove ALL posts of specific category from displaying at all ?

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[Christian]

Hey David!

Yes, I’d like to remove ALL posts of a specific category from displaying. For example, nothing in the category “Donuts” should be displayed. 🙂

[David]

OK – so the best way to go is to filter out the posts with a PHP snippet like so:

add_action('pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category_posts');
function exclude_category_posts( $query ) {
    if($query->is_main_query() && !is_admin()) {
        $query->set('cat', array( -22, -33 ));
    }
}

In the array: array( -22, -33 ) you need to update those values to match the ID of the category term(s) you want to exluded. Note it has to be a -negative value. So if the post ID was 37 then you would use -37

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[Christian]

Perfect, it works 🙂

Thanks David, you’re a rockstar!

[David]

Glad to be of help!

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