Education Pro – limit front page to 3 categories

[carrie]

Hi there - I'm updating from Education to Education Pro. In the functions.php Education Theme I coded a limit of 3 categories on the front page. When I put the code in the functions.php Education Pro Theme, it doesn't work. Help please? I have:

/**

* Limit homepage to three categories

*

*/

function be_home_query( $query ) {

if( $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_home() && !is_admin() )

$query->set( ‘category_name’, ‘upcoming-events, news, member-messages’ );

}

add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘be_home_query’ );

Thanks,
Carrie

https://www.emscc.ca/pcc2018

[Victor Font]

is_home() returns true when a static page is set to display posts. If you are using a widgetized front page, is_home() is false. Use is_front_page() instead. Better yet, consider both ( is_home() || is_front_page() )

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[carrie]

Thanks Victor, would this then be correct?

/**

* Limit homepage to three categories

*

*/

function be_home_query( $query ) {

if( $query->is_main_query() && $query->( is_home() || is_front_page() ) && !is_admin() )

$query->set( ‘category_name’, ‘upcoming-events, news, member-messages’ );

}

add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘be_home_query’ );

[carrie]

Okay, that's not working... I'm not sure what I need to be changing here?

Thanks,
Carrie

[carrie]

Okay, figured it out... that code didn't do anything. What I wanted was to exclude categories...

function nice_exclude_cat( $query ) {

if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() )

$query->set( 'cat', '-2,-3,-4,-5,-6,-7,-8,-9,-10,-11,-12,-13,-14,-15,-16,-17,-18,-19,-20,-21,-22,-23,-24,-25,-26,-27,-28,-29,-30,-32,-33,-34,-35,-36,-37,-38,-39,-40,-41,-42,-43,-44,-46,-47,-48,-51' );

return $query;

}

Yay! 🙂

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