Website At 100: Exclude

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On past few days, I was posted a great article on <strong style="line-height: inherit;">how you can exclude category to display from sidebar widgets</strong> without adding plugins and editing core files, today I will share you another great article on <strong style="line-height: inherit;">how you can exclude category to display in blog or home page</strong>.</div>
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To exclude category or categories in your blog or home page you can use WP Query,query_posts(), get_posts() and any other methods to create and execute new query but we’re not going to use those methods instead we only need create a very simple snippet and done, that’s it as easy as 1 2 3.</div>
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Okay let’s start.</div>
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Copy and paste this snippet into your <strong style="line-height: inherit;">functions.php</strong> of your current theme.</div>
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<a href="http://websiteat100.com/blog/category/php/" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.2s ease 0s, border 0.2s ease 0s, color 0.2s ease 0s, opacity 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; color: black; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.2s ease 0s, border 0.2s ease 0s, color 0.2s ease 0s, opacity 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;" title="php blog by websiteat100.com">PHP</a></div>
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add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘ryans_exclude_category_from_blog’ );</div>
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function ryans_exclude_category_from_blog( $query ) {</div>
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    if( $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_home() ) {</div>
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        $query->set( ‘cat’, ‘-8′ ); // -8 is the category ID</div>
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    }</div>
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}</div>
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If the above didn’t work try the snippet below.</div>
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add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘ryans_exclude_category_from_blog’ );</div>
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function ryans_exclude_category_from_blog( $query ) {</div>
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    global $wp_the_query;</div>
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    if( $wp_the_query === $query && $query->is_home() ) {</div>
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        $query->set( ‘cat’, ‘-8′ ); // -8 is the category ID</div>
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    }</div>
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}</div>
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That’s it, hope it helps.</div>
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