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1. 

   circleatseven
   Member

   Hello. I've seen a bunch of posts that explain how to exclude a specific category from the loop — and they all seem to work well, however, none of them ALSO exclude that category from the 'categories', 'archives', and 'recent posts' widgets!

   Here's the overview of what I am trying to do: I am using the 'Featured image' from posts of a certain category to display in a nivo slider on the home page(static page, not the blog) ... I want to hide the posts categorized as 'featured' (category '1') from everywhere except the home page.

   Anyone know how to do this?! Thanks!

   Posted 1 year ago #
2. 

   circleatseven
   Member

   
   

   Posted 1 year ago #
3. 

   helgatheviking
   Moderator

   that's not really a thematic question. i think you'd need to write your own widgets

   Posted 1 year ago #
4. 

   helgatheviking
   Moderator

   that's not really a thematic question. i think you'd need to write your own widgets

   Posted 1 year ago #
5. 

   circleatseven
   Member

   Actually, it is because I am neckdeep in a Thematic child theme build and Thematic doesn't easily let me edit the loop to exclude a category from the templates I need to exclude it from — all I can see are these action hooks! How do I edit those to exclude a category?!

   Posted 1 year ago #
6. 

   logostar
   Member

   I think you would have to use
   if ( is_home() ) {
   something like that.

   As I'm trying to exclude specific categories from the blog page.

   Posted 1 year ago #
7. 

   helgatheviking
   Moderator

   unfortunately, even though you are using Thematic, it is still a widget problem for removing that category from the widgets.

   to remove it from it from the index loop you'd do something like

   function kia_adjust_query(){
     global $wp_query;
     $defaults = $wp_query->query_vars;
     $new = array('category__not_in' => array( 6 ) ); //where 6 is the ID of the cat you'd like to exclude
     $args = wp_parse_args( $new, $defaults );
     query_posts($args);
   }
   add_action('thematic_aboveindexloop','kia_adjust_query');

   Posted 1 year ago #
8. 

   logostar
   Member

   Code above does not work,
   I actually googled exclude category from indexloop and came to a post on here with the correct code.
   Thanks for the help though! I always seem to find the answer on here using google.

   Posted 1 year ago #

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