[Resolved] my post

[Nanette]

I altered the Merch theme for my knowledge based website
I changed the Merch blog home page (https://gpsites.co/merch/blog/) to (https://nir-for-food.com/industries/)
The page uses WSP and I used PHP snippets to exclude categories I did not want to be pulled to the page
They were both working for a while but now one exclusion PHP for one category is not working.
I don’t know why.
The PHP code is the following:
function exclude_Applications( $query ) {
if ( $query->is_Home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
$query->set( ‘cat’, ‘-26’ );
}
}
add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘exclude_Applications’ );

I am trying to exclude the category applications and wondered why the PHP code above use to work but now doesn’t?

[Tom]

Hi there,

This looks ok – what’s changed since it was working?

One thing you can try is changing is_Home() to is_home().

[Nanette]

I am not sure what changed. I can’t remember. To tell you the truth.

[Tom]

What if you remove && $query->is_main_query()?

[Nanette]

I remember what changed, I had only the industry category posts which were 7. Now I have the category application posts showing up which I don’t want.

I will try your suggestions one at a time to see what it does.

[Nanette]

I tried your suggestions but it won’t work. I have the exact PHP snippet to exclude another category and it is working. However, this one just won’t work. I can’t figure out why it won’t.

[Tom]

So you’re using the exact same snippet on another website and it’s working?

[Nanette]

No on the same one but to exclude another category

[Tom]

Can you share both complete functions you’re using? Maybe they’re conflicting with each other.

[Nanette]

I worked on the code and got it to work. Thanks for helping.

[Tom]

No problem 🙂

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