Removing Categories From Individual Featured Sections

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Originally Posted by amlampert

Hello again,

I want to show all posts in the featured main section, except Humor posts. Right now, I have "All Categories" selected for the featured main section in the news theme options, which obviously includes Humor category posts, but I want the featured main section to show all categories of posts except for humor posts. Sorry if I was unclear before, or if this is too much to ask, but thanks again for your help!

This is quite straightforward to do, but does require editing home.php. Also, this fix will hardcode the exclusion of the Humour ctaegory, which means you will have to re-edit home.php you wish to exclude a different category in future.

Find this in home.php:

PHP Code:

<?php $recent = new WP_Query("cat=".get_theme_mod('featured_main')."&showposts=".get_theme_mod('featured_main_num')); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>

and add this immediately below it:

PHP Code:

<?php if( !in_category('X') ) { ?>

and add this:

PHP Code:

<?php } ?>

immediately above this:

PHP Code:

<?php endwhile; ?>

Change the X, in the in_category function, to the ID of your Humour category.

Hopefully that will work.