WordPress is too popular nowadays that daily new bloggers are adopting it. There are too many free and paid themes are available for the WordPress platform. Every developer has created the design as per his choice and thinking.
Currently, I am using the “justwrite” theme in routerunlock.com. It is nicely designed and suites our requirements. Since I write about smartphones and tablets’ specifications, I create a new post under the Gadget Specifications category. Since it is just in a table format that is not so much user interactive, I don’t want to see this on the homepage and RSS feed.
After trying a lot, I got some coding that worked well in WordPress 4.1. If you want to remove the specific category from RSS feed then, try below code :
function myFilter($query) {
if ($query->is_feed) {
$query->set(‘cat’,’-X, X1′);
}
return $query;
}
add_filter(‘pre_get_posts’,’myFilter’);
If you want to remove any categories from homepage then use below code :
function exclude_category_home( $query ) {
if ( $query->is_home ) {
$query->set( ‘cat’, ‘-X, X1’ );
}
return $query;
}
add_filter( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘exclude_category_home’ );
Here, X and X1 is your category which you want to exclude. Change it with your category IDs.
Open the theme editor and go functions.php. Go to the end, and paste the code before ?>
Now update the file, and it will work as you like.
To find out the Category ID, login into the dashboard of your blog, and go to the Categories. Put the cursor in any category which you want to exclude; Category ID will be displayed just above the taskbar of Windows. Note down the category ID and replace the ‘X.’
There are various plugins are also available, but some are out-dated. You can try with Simply Exclude or Ultimate Category Excluder. However, we have not tested these plugins. Before making any changes, make you have taken the backup of original files.
