Exclude an entire category from ever appearing among Related Posts results

  • Resolved underclass

    (@underclass)


    8 years, 11 months ago

    I’m trying to use the customisation of related posts to exclude a category using the code supplied on the help file;

    //Jetpack Related Posts
function jetpackme_filter_exclude_category( $filters ) {
    $filters[] = array( 'not' => array( 'term' => array( 'category.slug' => 'blog' ) )
    );
    return $filters;
}
add_filter( 'jetpack_relatedposts_filter_filters', 'jetpackme_filter_exclude_category' );

    But the category ‘blog’ continues to remain in the results, I have tried other hooks successfully (headline change, remove context) but removing any of the category slugs does not work. Defaulting to 2014/15 themes does not seem to have any effect.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/

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  • Plugin Contributor Ryan C.

    (@ryancowles)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    The code snippet that you provided looks like it should be working. Could you let me know where exactly you are adding it on your site?

    Thread Starter underclass

    (@underclass)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    This is being added to the functions file in a child theme, I am successfully using code to exclude related posts from being rendered in the blog category as outlined in another thread;

    https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-exclude-related-posts-from-all-the-posts-of-a-category?replies=6

    function jetpackme_remove_rp() {
    $jprp = Jetpack_RelatedPosts::init();
    $callback = array( $jprp, 'filter_add_target_to_dom' );
    if ( in_category( 'blog' ) ) {
        remove_filter( 'the_content', $callback, 40 );
    }
}
add_filter( 'wp', 'jetpackme_remove_rp', 20 );

    To test, should I need to re-index posts using debug on 2014/2015 themes?

    Thread Starter underclass

    (@underclass)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    I have noticed that changing the slug does have an effect on the output of the related posts.

    I am using print, digital, photography and blog categories – using different slugs does exclude the category from the related posts.

    I am able to exclude print, photography and digital, but not blog.

    Plugin Contributor Ryan C.

    (@ryancowles)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks for the additional information! Is blog the default category for new posts?

    Thread Starter underclass

    (@underclass)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    It is

    Plugin Contributor Ryan C.

    (@ryancowles)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    Gotcha. I suspect that might be part of the issue. If you take a look at the section about excluding categories here:
    http://jetpack.me/support/customize-related-posts/#exclude-cats

    You’ll notice the second snippet in that section excludes the default uncategorized category from Related Posts. Since blog is your default category, I would suggest trying that approach.

    Let me know how that works for you!

    Thread Starter underclass

    (@underclass)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    That works perfectly, thank you, I should have thought to try that earlier. May I suggest that the help file is edited to include a line about default categories?

    Thanks for your help!

    Plugin Contributor Ryan C.

    (@ryancowles)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    Glad to hear that did the trick! We’ll get the support doc updated to better explain this.

    Please let me know if there is anything else that I can help with!

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