[Support request] I don't want to show the posts in the category pages.

[Fernando]

I would like to know if there is any way (other than hide them by CSS), not to show the entries in the pages of the categories.

This I want to do because I have a design (made with Elementor) which I insert as a Hook in “Elements”.
The problem is that also appear the post that shows Generatepress.

Thank you very much!

[Tom]

Hi there,

There are a couple options.

1. Set up 301 redirects from your category archives to your pages.

2. Do something like this: https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/replace-default-post-category-template-with-a-blank-page-template/#post-608201

[Fernando]

Option 1 definitely doesn’t.
Option 2 I thank you, but I don’t understand it.

How can I show a blank page in the template of the categories?

Another option is to give a better style to the blog entries. Since we don’t like a lot of people… 🙁

[Tom]

Basically, you would add this function to your site:

add_filter('request', function(array $query_vars) {
    // do nothing in wp-admin
    if (is_admin() ) {
        return $query_vars;
    }

    // if the query is for a category
    if ( isset( $query_vars['category_name'] ) ) {
        // save the slug
        $pagename = $query_vars['category_name'];

        // completely replace the query with a page query
        $query_vars = array( 'pagename' => "$pagename" );
    }

    return $query_vars;
} );

What this does is check the category name being requested, and redirects you to the page with that name.

So if I’m landing on mywebsite.com/category/test-category, it will redirect me to mywebsite.com/test-category.

[Fernando]

Hi Tom,

This isn’t working. Besides, I don’t want to redirect to pages with the same name.

I have a design (made with Elementor) which I insert as a Hook in “Elements”. This replaces the style of the category, inserting the template that I have made in Elementor.
The problem is that the posts of each category are still shown, so what I have to do is hide them by CSS, but I wish they could be hidden in another way…

I know this is complicated, but it wouldn’t be necessary if the category entries could be edited in GeneratePress as Elementor pages to give it a better style.

[David]

Hi there,

if you have Elementor Pro then you can build the Archive Templates with that and it will replace the GP Archives. Alternatively if you can share a link to your site we can have a look to see if its easy enough to replicate in GP.

[Author]

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