blog page template won't exlude categories

[dompalmer]

Hi,

I've created a standard child theme for Genesis and am trying to limit the categories displayed on the blog page template to just one: 'news'. I've tried this through the theme options via the blog page template tab but the page will only display all categories whether I choose to display only one or omit the others. Is there something I'm missing with this?

Many thanks in advance!

http://arete.dominicpalmer.co.uk/latest-news/

[Brad Dalton]

Try this

https://gist.github.com/braddalton/5530851

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[dompalmer]

Thanks for the swift response Brad. I'm afraid it didn't work however. I placed the code into the functions.php file and changed the category from '-007' to '-002' (as my blog category that I want to keep is has the ID of 2) but the page is still displaying all of them.

Any other thoughts at all would be much appreciated

Many thanks

[Brad Dalton]

007 is in reference to 007 the actor and movie. Its a placeholder number.

You will need to replace that with your i.d which is 2.

Not 002 because i think he's been replaced!!

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[dompalmer]

haha! Ok I now understand...

I've added your code but am having now luck again I'm afraid - All categories are still displaying http://arete.dominicpalmer.co.uk/latest-news/

Just to clarify. The category I want to exclusively display is '2' so I have adapted the code here

Am I missing something??

Many thanks again

[Brad Dalton]

You missed the -

So it should be -2

Should work now.

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[dompalmer]

Well spotted and thanks again for your persistence... however it still hasn't done it. All categories still displaying.

Could I have altered something else that has had a knock on effect? There's every possibility I've edited something without realising...

Many thanks

[Brad Dalton]

Maybe. What have you set in the Genesis > Theme Settings > Blog Page Template?

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[dompalmer]

The option there is set to 'news' also. It doesn't have any effect on the filter regardless of what I set it to unfortunately

[Brad Dalton]

It should work so there must be a problem. Try deactivating all your plugins and see what happens.

Then you can activate them one by one to see if its a plugin conflict.

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[dompalmer]

Still no joy 🙁 I turned them all off but the problem persisted.

I must've messed with something here but can't think what.

Do you think an alternative might be just to set up a new page template to only feed the one category? Seems a bit drastic but...

[Brad Dalton]

Change the conditional tag:

is_page('blog')

To the page i.d for your blog which can can grab from the source code in the body tag section.

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[dompalmer]

Thanks Brad - I haven't tried it yet but I think you've found the issue

I got the page working using a workaround. I selected the blog template file and added

query_args: cat=1 into the custom fields

this did the trick in the short term - Many thanks again for your help with this one

[Brad Dalton]

Just tested this code and it works on the home page.

Note: You'll need to change the conditional tag and the category i.d in the code.

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[Brad Dalton]

Note: Use of the is_home() conditional tag depends on your Reading Settings.

If your Reading Settings are set to: Front page displays > Your latest posts, then the is_home() conditional tag will return true for your front page.

If your Reading Settings are set to: Front page displays > A static page (select below) , then the is_home() conditional tag will return true for your blog page and not your Front Page.

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