How to exclude Related posts from all the posts of a category?

Try the code mentioned here to exclude a category from your Related Posts:
https://jetpack.me/support/related-posts/customize-related-posts/#exclude-cats

Hi Jeremy,

Thanks for the reply..

Unfortunately looks like I was not able to put across my query well. What you’ve answered is:

“How to exclude an entire category from ever appearing among Related Posts results”,
however what I’m actually looking for is this:

“How to selectively disable Related Posts from appearing on all the posts of a specific category”

For clarity, I’ve used the same terminologies as was mentioned on your support page available at https://jetpack.me/support/related-posts/customize-related-posts

I look forward to your reply.

In this case, you can use this code:
https://jetpack.me/support/related-posts/customize-related-posts/#delete

You will, however, want to wrap remove_filter( 'the_content', $callback, 40 ); in a conditional tag using in_category:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/in_category

Hi Jeremy,

I missed this reply.. Thanks for your reply.

Can you help me out with the exact code to selectively disable Related Posts from appearing on all the posts of a couple of categories. I’m not a programmer and hence not able to figure what exactly is to be dove. Having said that, I can definitely put the code that you will provide under functions.php.

Sample name for categories – CatA, CatB, etc.

I look forward to your help..

Something like this should do the trick:

function jetpackme_remove_rp() {
    $jprp = Jetpack_RelatedPosts::init();
    $callback = array( $jprp, 'filter_add_target_to_dom' );
    if ( in_category( array( 'CatA', 'CatA' ) ) ) {
        remove_filter( 'the_content', $callback, 40 );
    }
}
add_filter( 'wp', 'jetpackme_remove_rp', 20 );

Hi,

I wanted to remove Jetpack Related posts from all posts within a specific category. I and another WordPress developer came up with the following solution:

//Remove Jetpack Related Posts form Posts in a Category

if ( class_exists('Jetpack_RelatedPosts')) {

    function jetpackme_remove_rp() {
        $jprp = Jetpack_RelatedPosts::init();
        $callback = array($jprp, 'filter_add_target_to_dom');
        if (in_category(array(243))) {
            remove_filter('the_content', $callback, 40);
        }
    }

    add_action('wp', 'jetpackme_remove_rp', 20);
}

I am using my category id. It can be replaced with your own category id.

How can I exclude all categories except one category called “blog” to show up only. I am having issues pointing a specific category to the related post.

@crazy Could you please start your own thread, as per the Forum Welcome?
https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/jetpack#postform

Thank you!