[JayWilly]

Hello NiceThemes!

I’ve purchased and installed your theme and am almost done my site. One of the last things I need to do is exclude two categories of posts from displaying on the Blog page.

Could you please provide me with the technical answer / snippet of code?

Really looking forward to hearing from you soon!

I’m almost there!

Thanks

Justin

[Juanfra Aldasoro]

Hi Justin,

Thanks for writing.

Unfortunately we can’t provide support on customization. However, I’ve posted something related to that in my personal blog a while ago: http://juanfra.me/2012/11/how-to-exclude-categories-from-your-wordpress-home-page/

You should use that snippet and modify the is_home conditional

Best,
Juan

[JayWilly]

Thanks for the quick reply. Do you offer your services for sale to customize?

Looking at that snippet, it is a little outside my scope, as I don’t eally work with .php

Trying to wrap my head around that conditional statement.

[Juanfra Aldasoro]

No problem.

Unfortunately we don’t offer customization services. You can contact our friends at http://codeable.io

Best,
Juan.

[JayWilly]

Aaaaand my site has a white out…

#crappy

[Juanfra Aldasoro]

Hello Justin,

Would you please describe me what is that you have done?

Best,
Juan.

[JayWilly]

What I did was copy and paste this code.

is_home() && $query->is_main_query() )
$query->set( ‘cat’, ‘-1,-2,-3’ );

return $query;
}

add_filter( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘nice_exclude_cat’ );

?>

and changed

is_home -> is_blog

( ‘cat’, ‘-1,-2,-3’ ); -> ( ‘cat’, ‘6,7’ );

That is all.

Thank you for showing interest in my dilemma… 🙂

[Juanfra Aldasoro]

Hello Justin,

First of all, you have erased the function definition. This is, where the function nice_exclude_cat is defined.

Secondly, the function is_blog doesn’t exist. You should review your code and take into account that a simple comma or error in any piece of code can make your screen white.

Best,
Juan.

[JayWilly]

My apologies.

This was the code that I used.

is_home() && $query->is_main_query() )
$query->set( ‘cat’, ‘-1,-2,-3’ );

return $query;
}

add_filter( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘nice_exclude_cat’ );

?>

———-

Anyway, I’ve handed it over to a .php dev – so it shall be fixed real soon.

FTP file reset lol!

Thanks Juan

[JayWilly]

For some reason <?php is not appearing in the message reply.

[Juanfra Aldasoro]

Would you please send me your functions.php file to support@nicethemes.com?

Best,
Juan.

[JayWilly]

Just sent it your way. Thanks Juan.

[JayWilly]

BEST CUSTOMER SERVICE EVER!

I’ll be a lifetime customer you bet!

Thanks Support Team.

[Juanfra Aldasoro]

Thanks for your kind words, Justin.

We’re happy to have you around 🙂

Have a nice day,
Juan.