Exclude category from Custom Post Type archive page?

  • Resolved v123shine

    (@v123shine)


    7 years, 9 months ago

    I create a new post type ‘book‘. And i register new taxonomy for post type ‘book’. The name is ‘cat_book‘

    Now I want exclude category id ’30’ and ’31’ from archive-book.php

    I add this in function:

    function exclude_cat( $query ) {
	if ( !is_admin() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
		if ( is_post_type_archive( 'book' ) ) {
			$query->set( 'category__not_in', array( 30, 31 ) );
			return;
		}
	}
}
add_action('pre_get_posts','exclude_cat');

    But can’t work. Can someone help me, please! Thanks.

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    7 years, 9 months ago

    the code you show is using the category taxonomy and not the custom taxonomy you created.

    Look at the code for custom taxonomies in the wp_query docs:

    https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Taxonomy_Parameters

    Thread Starter v123shine

    (@v123shine)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks Steven for your help.

    But honestly I don’t understand how to implement “Taxonomy_Parameters” into my code. Can you help me, please!

    Many thanks.

    Jacob Peattie

    (@jakept)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    Try this:

    function exclude_cat( $query ) {
	if ( !is_admin() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
		if ( is_post_type_archive( 'book' ) ) {
			$tax_query = $query->get( 'tax_query' ) ?: array();

			$tax_query[] = array(
				'taxonomy' => 'cat_book',
				'field'    => 'id',
				'terms'    => array( 30, 31 ),
				'operator' => 'NOT IN',
			);

			$query->set( 'tax_query', $tax_query );
		}
	}

	return $query;
}
add_action('pre_get_posts','exclude_cat');

    I wrote it blind, so make a backup of your functions file before adding this, in case I made a type-o.

    Thread Starter v123shine

    (@v123shine)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    Thank you, thank you… thank you very much JakePT for your help 🙂

    Bytelab

    (@bytelab)

    7 years, 5 months ago

    Hi there,

    This is half way to solving my problem so thank you very much for sharing.

    I can only get this code to work if I remove the <if> statements. I need them otherwise the function is applied to all pages in the site, not just the home page.

    I have a static front page configured.

    This is the code I have been trying to use:

    add_action('pre_get_posts','exclude_cat');
function exclude_cat( $query ) {
	if ( !is_admin() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
		$tax_query = $query->get( 'tax_query' ) ?: array();
		$tax_query[] = array(
			'taxonomy' => 'st_category',
			'field'    => 'id',
			'terms'    => array( 115 ),
			'operator' => 'NOT IN',
		);
		$query->set( 'tax_query', $tax_query );
	}
	return $query;
}

    I have also tried the following <if> statements with no success:

    if( $query->is_page( array( 113, 'portfolio', 'Portfolio' ) ) ) {
    if( $query->is_home() ) {
    if( $query->is_front_page() ) {

    It works perfectly without the <if> statements! What is going on?

    Please help if you can – thank you!

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