[Resolved] Hide Category

[Kumari]

Hi There

I was wondering if it is at all possible to hide a specific category from showing up on my site?
I have some archived content (blog posts) that I need to keep due to backlinks and keywords etc but I do not want these to show up when people are browsing my site.

Please let me know if it is possible to do this without using a plugin?

Thanks in advance.

[Tom]

Hi there,

Where/how would they currently find the category? When searching for posts?

[Kumari]

They could possibly come across it using ‘post navigation’ and when searching for posts.

I don’t mind it showing up with search but would prefer that it not show up via post navigation.

[Tom]

In that case, you should be able to do this:

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', function( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set( 'cat', -10 );
    }
} );

You just need change 10 to the ID of the category you’re wanting to exclude.

[Kumari]

This works perfectly! Thank you SO much!

[Tom]

You’re welcome 🙂

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