[Plugin: The Events Calendar] Don’t want calendar events to show in the blog posts

Hi Sebastien,

For single.php in your theme, the following works to get the loop right:

<?php
$eventsCatId = get_cat_ID( 'Events' );
query_posts($query_string.'&cat=-'.$eventsCatId);
?>

That keeps the query already set by WP and appends your category exclusion. I’m guessing the same technique will work for archive.php.

In single view, the previous and next post links will still include Events posts. Here is the generic markup for the previous post link, which allows for category exclusion.

<?php previous_post_link($format, $link, $in_same_cat = false, $excluded_categories = ''); ?>

The reference: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/previous_post_link

Let us know if that does it. I bet others would like a similar setup.

Justin

Hi Justin,

Thanks for your help!
Removing the events from the single post view works just with the previous and next post links removing the category. (I didn’t think about that one)

I also tried the first snippet of code for the archive, I can’t get it to work.
I usually use the query_post at the beginning of a loop, in that case I don’t know where to place as it I don’t have a loop in my archive.
Here is the code I use:

<?php /* Template Name: All Archives */ ?>

<?php get_header(); ?>
	<div id="content">

		<div id="countryMain">

			<h2 id="catTag"><?php the_title(); ?></h2>

			<div class="archiveCatTitle">
				<h3>By Tag:</h3>
			</div>
			<div class="columns">
				<ul id="tagsColumn">
					<?php wp_tag_cloud(); ?>
				</ul>
			</div>

			<div class="archiveCatTitle">
				<h3>By Month:</h3>
			</div>
			<div class="columns">
				<ul id="archTextMonth" class="columnItemArch">
					<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&show_post_count=1'); ?>
				</ul>
			</div>

			<div class="archiveCatTitle">
				<h3>By Category:</h3>
			</div>
			<div class="columns">
				<ul id="archTextMonth" class="columnItemArch">
					<?php wp_list_categories('show_count=1&include=1,3,4,5,6&title_li=0&after= Entries'); ?>
				</ul>
			</div>

			<div class="pagination"></div>

		</div>

	</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Sebastien

Sebastien,

That archive template uses <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&show_post_count=1'); ?>. Try adding the argument to exclude categories to wp_get_archives(), like:

<?php
$eventsCatId = get_cat_ID( 'Events' );
wp_get_archives('type=monthly&show_post_count=1&cat=-'.$eventsCatId );
?>

That’s untested. If that function doesn’t take a category argument, you’ll need to use a loop instead, using arguments to query_posts() to produce the correct archive results.

Justin

Hi Justin,

Sorry for taking so long,
I did find a solution with a plugin: Advanced Category Excluder
But this one caused more troubles than what it solved, so I’m going to try your solution even though I’m no php wizard.

Thanks for your help