Title: Woocommerce Function Not Updating
Last modified: October 26, 2016

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# Woocommerce Function Not Updating

 *  [alboome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alboome/)
 * (@alboome)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/woocommerce-function-not-updating/)
 * I have a simple function to exclude a few categories from my Woocommerce shop
   page. This is the following code:
 *     ```
       add_filter( 'woocommerce_product_categories_widget_args', 'woo_product_cat_widget_args' );
       function woo_product_cat_widget_args( $cat_args ) {
       $cat_args['exclude'] = '12, 13';
       return $cat_args;
       }
       ```
   
 * Which works like a charm. However, I have now added another category that I’d
   like to exclude with ID 22. So I tried adding that ID as well like: ’12, 13, 
   22′; but when I save nothing happens, the category is still there.
 * So just as a test, I removed ID 13 and 22 but Category 13 doesn’t appear either.
   I tried clearing my web browsers cache and also another browser but still the
   same result.
 * I am not using a cache plugin like W3 Total Cashe etc at this stage.
 * Any idea on how I can resolve this? 🙂
 * The URL is [http://olayagallery.com/gallery/](http://olayagallery.com/gallery/)
    -  This topic was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by [alboome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alboome/).

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 *  [linux4me2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/linux4me2/)
 * (@linux4me2)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/woocommerce-function-not-updating/#post-8360633)
 * I tried your code on a test site, and it didn’t work for me, either. Instead,
   try using the slugs for the categories and this code:
 *     ```
       add_filter( 'get_terms', 'get_subcategory_terms', 10, 3 );
   
       function get_subcategory_terms( $terms, $taxonomies, $args ) {
   
         $new_terms = array();
   
         // if a product category and on the shop page
         if ( in_array( 'product_cat', $taxonomies ) && ! is_admin() && is_shop() ) {
   
           foreach ( $terms as $key => $term ) {
   
             if ( ! in_array( $term->slug, array( 'category-slug-1', 'category-slug-2' ) ) ) {
               $new_terms[] = $term;
             }
   
           }
   
           $terms = $new_terms;
         }
   
         return $terms;
       }
       ```
   
 * Just replace the “category-slug-1” and so on with the slugs for your three categories
   and give it a try. Note that I have WooCommerce -> Settings -> Products -> Display-
   > Shop Page Display set to “Show categories” on the test site where the above
   code worked.

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