Exclude Post Category From Block Element

Hi there,

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

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. :)

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

Perfect, it works :)

Thanks David, you're a rockstar!

Glad to be of help!