Excluding categories in the_category

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/the_category
Does it have exclude parameter? No, it doesn’t.

Right….it does not have an exclude or an include parameter… I’m not sure how that helped.

How can I exclude/include categories, then?

You can’t.

OK, thank you ??

How about using Tags for one of those functions, and Categories for the other?

hi,

i want the same thing too. since i see there is no include/exclude parameter shouldn’t it be possible to do a little bit or workaround?

i mean the_category reads and displays all categories a post has but isnt there a way to tell the loop to echo only certain ones?

i am not a programmer but couldnt it be something like:

<?php
$category = get_the_category();
echo $category[9,10,11]->cat_ID;
?>

where 9,10,11 are the category ids of the categories you want to display. i tried it and it didnt work but i think i just dont know syntax ??

up

up… please someone help cezarneaga ??

This really makes no sense. If you don’t want a category to display on a post, then don’t assign the post to that category in the first place.

If you’re using categories for something else, then you’re probably using them wrong and making things overcomplicated. Find something else to use instead of categories for your custom stuff.

I′m not using them wrong and not making things overcomplicated…
Only have a movies blog, and I want to separate them by genre.
The problem is that appears like that in my blog:

Genre: Action, Horror, Upcomings, Featured

And I need to remove “Upcomings” and “Featured” categories from the the_category list…

Any good idea? ??
Until now, this was the best idea that I found:
https://designintellection.com/2007/excluding-wordpress-categories-with-css/

But I don’t want to use, because don’t work in all versions of browsers…

Is this what you are looking for? https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/simply-exclude/

Sorry mate, that plugin dont work for me…
But thank you for trying help ??

A custom filter on the_category would let you remove them, but you’d need to know some PHP and such.

function my_category_filter($catlist) {
// $catlist contains the list of links, add code to edit it here
return $catlist;
}
add_filter('the_category','my_category_filter');

Thank you Otto42 ??

Damn, my PHP knowledge is zero lol… bad luck
Can someone with a good soul and heart, help me? ??

Thank you

i tried this plugin but it doesn’t work for me ?

maybe it will work better for you ?

https://www.xhaleera.com/index.php/products/wordpress-mseries-plugins/mcatfilter/