Excluding Category in Featured Post

[Michael_S]

I'm using Modern Portfolio Pro and am wondering if it is possible to exclude a specific Post category from appearing in the Home>Blog widget area of my home page yet still appear in the Home>Portfolio widget area.

The "Featured Post" widget is used for both.

I'm sensing this is a "you can't have it both ways" circumstance.

This bit of php posted a year ago by Brad Dalton looked promising, but I was unable to get it to work:

d_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category_posts_home' );

function exclude_category_posts_home( $query ) {

if( $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_home() ) {
$query->set( 'cat', '-32' );
}

(substituting "portfolio" for "category" and used Cat ID "8")

I'd appreciate some insight. Perhaps pair-up a Text Widget and a dash of php?

Thanks

Mike

http://www.test.puebloperiodically.com/

[mpet29]

I needed to do the same thing on a previous site, and also ran into your issue. What I did to get around it was to make that category a custom post type, which kept it out of the main feed, and then I had a widget that was set to ONLY show that post type.

[Kyle Rumble]

I've never used the theme before, but if its a blog category you should only have to change the cat id.

$query->set( ‘cat’, ‘-8′ );

Or maybe try this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/flexible-posts-widget/ you can filter by CPT, Taxonomy/Cat, and even Post ID's.

[Michael_S]

Thanks, gentlemen. I'm gonna poke around some more and see what I can come up with; I appreciate your suggestions.

Mike

[Tom]

exclude a specific Post category from appearing in the Home>Blog widget area of my home page yet still appear in the Home>Portfolio widget area.

You can do this with a plugin to control the post output by category in the Home Blog widget area. Try using Genesis Sandbox Featured Content Widget -- you will have do use a slightly older version (1.1.3 vs 1.1.4) as the current version ability to select (include) a single category is broken. Get 1.1.3 >here<.

Once loaded and activated, use this plugin to output blog posts (Taxonomy and Terms: All Taxonomy and Terms), but exclude the post category/categories by specifying their category ID(s) in "Exclude Terms by ID (comma separated list)". Specify other characterstics as desired for image, title, excerpt, etc.

Your portfolio section can stay as-is or use GSFC widget to control output there, too.

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