Blacklist category from front page.

In functions.php rewrite the function esplanade_ignore_sticky_posts() like so:

function esplanade_ignore_sticky_posts( $query ) {
	global $wp_the_query;
	if( ( $wp_the_query === $query ) && $query->is_home() && esplanade_get_option( 'slider' ) ) {
		$query->set( 'ignore_sticky_posts', 1 );
		$query->set( 'cat', -4 );
	}
}

Replace the number with the ID of the category you wish to exclude.

• This reply was modified 12 years, 9 months ago by Daniel Tara.

Just tried this and it crashed the site, had to restore the function.php file. Apparently it conflicted with line 4, which I modified per another thread to keep from repeating the sticky posts on the front page. Any chance I’d be able to do both?

This is blacklisting the blocked category not only from the front page, but also from the category page and the back end as well, only accessible by entering the direct URL… I had to undo the changes. Please advise.

hi Daniel,

the solution you have given is good but sorry to say that it is not so great. I will tell you why, for example I have 100 categories and as the time goes by, the more you post the more categories you will discover to create. If I only wish one category to be displayed on the homepage, it means I have to exclude the other 99 – one by one i have to exclude them, and if there’s new category, i have to go there again to edit the function.php. In other words, for me it’s complicated.

suggested solution:
is there a solution that we can make it the other way around? instead of “exclude” reverse it to “include”. in that way, i only need to assign one (1) category to feature on the homepage.

what do you think?

I don’t have 100 top-level categories :-), it was just an example to show you that it was complicated to exclude all the other categories if you only want to show one category.

Can you teach me how to include only a certain category on the homepage besides sticky posts on the slider?