how do I exclude a category and the posts with in it

Hi,

Let me think about it and I’ll come back to you soon.

Roman

Hi,

Here is one simple solution.
Add the following code to your theme’s functions.php file:

add_filter('searchexclude_filter_search', 'archiveCategoryFilter', 10, 2);
function archiveCategoryFilter($exclude, $query)
{
    $category__not_in = $query->get('category__not_in');
    $query->set('category__not_in', array_merge($category__not_in, array(get_cat_ID('Archive'))));
	return $exclude;
}

Depending on your site load, it is possible to optimize the solution, if you need that.

Please let me know if this works for you.
And feel free to contact me by email for any help: [email protected]

Cheers!
Roman

Hi Roman,

Thank you for looking for a solution. Unfortunately with this code in place it is still searching and including posts from the archive category.

Graeme

Hi Graeme,

That could happen for many reasons. Please contact me by email [email protected] so that we could resolve this faster.

Roman

After some debugging we were able to find the working solution.

Need to add following code into theme’s functions.php:

function archiveCategoryFilter($query)
{
    $exclude =
            (!is_admin() || (defined('DOING_AJAX') && DOING_AJAX))
            && $query->is_search;

    if ($exclude) {
    	$category__not_in = $query->get('category__not_in');
        $query->set('category__not_in', array_merge($category__not_in, array(get_cat_ID('archives'))));
    }

    return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'archiveCategoryFilter');

NOTE: It does not require the SearchExclude plugin to be installed.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 12 months ago by pronskiy.

@pronskiy, I normally try not to add my issues/request to other people’s threads; however, in this case I came here looking exactly for this and I felt it would probably be more efficient to add the request here instead of starting a new topic. If you wish me to do that, I would be happy to split it off.

I was wondering, since you have done such an excellent job with this; I installed it today and so far doing great. The interface to quick edit the option into pages, was genius, thank you for that – I was pleasantly surprised to see it there.

So naturally, we want more ?? I know we can be so selfish. But honestly I feel that it would make this plugin even more amazing, and I hope you will consider it. Can you please add a similarly genius interface for setting the excludes on the category page as well. So basically like the posts/pages, we could simply load the category page and somewhere next to each item have an exclude and once saved, it will automatically do what is being done manually in the code you provided above?

I think ultimately many would prefer not having to manually modify their theme/etc files and let the plugin manage it more efficiently and centralized to prevent fragmentation of solutions. Thank you in advance.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by Gμ?rD???. Reason: wrong attribution

Hi @guardian74,

Glad you liked the plugin!
Thanks for describing the idea in details. It actually was on my radar for a while, but I was postponing it. Looks like now is the time to implement it ??
So far I can not provide an estimate, let me think about this and I’ll get back to you soon.

@pronskiy thank you and I look forward to it. If anything I can help with or in the least can help test, let me know please.