Exclude Category Not Working

[travisdotmedia]

Hello everyone! Are there any known issues with the 'Exclude Categories' option in the theme settings? I am trying to solve this for a client and I just can't nail it down. I can enter a manual code into functions.php to exclude a category and voila, it works. But when I put in the category ID into the Exclude Categories field in the Genesis Settings, the posts still show up. He has a homepage and a blog page and the blog page is set to the blog template (which is what is documented as how it must be set up to work).

I thought perhaps it may be a plugin conflict on his site, but just for kicks I tried my own site to see if it worked and it also does not work on my site. I have a homepage as well as a blog page, using the blog page template. My site is Travis.Media.

Any thoughts? Anyone else with this issue?

http://travis.media

[Brad Dalton]

I doubt you can use code and theme settings at the same time, also, what code are you using?

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[travisdotmedia]

Hi Brad,

On Travis.media, I am not using any code to exclude. If I put it a category ID into the Exclude Category field, it does not seem to work.

On the other site (patrickoben.com) I remove the code and place the ID in the field and it does not seem to exclude.

Currently the code is in place. It is,

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category_from_blog' );
function exclude_category_from_blog( $query ) {

if( $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_home() ) {
$query->set( 'cat', '-5171' );
}
}

This code works. Does Genesis exclude under the same conditionals?

[Brad Dalton]

In relation to use of the blog template, exclude category works fine when i test it however the code doesn't work with the blog template however it does work with the home page. Tested using the default reading settings which you may have changed.

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[travisdotmedia]

Thanks Brad! So I just changed my Static Front Page option in the Customizer so that the Front Page displays the latest posts and the exclude works. So this does not work on the blog pages if you set a static homepage?

[Brad Dalton]

Yes.

The code only works with the front page and not the blog page template.

The theme settings only work for the blog page template.

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