Hi,
this one may be obvious to somebody, but couldn’t figure it out without hacking something, so thought I’d query the gang.
Okay:
we use the “Featured” category in order to have that show as poster/large image on each category page automatically and obviously on some sites for the slider stuff on home page.
However, this also adds “Featured” as a clickable category in the sidebar lineup of categories, which shouldn’t really be there for our purposes.
I can remove it from the sitemap using function in YOAST SEO, but a simple list of say five site categories on sidebar, starts with Featured in one case, which we don’t want.
Presumably I could just make a text based widget and put the categories there, but that would lose the functionality and any of the schema stuff which might be inserted by theme/WP at some point.
Seems like there should be a function to simply hide one category from the sidebar query, but wasn’t able to figure out with a short attention span today.
Any pointers on this would be great, thanks 🙂
Hi Christopher,
You can try to use this filter in functions.php :
function set_category_widget_parameters($args) {
$args['exclude'] = '98';
return $args;
}
add_filter('widget_categories_args','set_category_widget_parameters');Just replace “98” with your featured category ID.
Hope this helps you!
Thanks
Awesome. I haven’t built my own themes since 2011 and getting very rusty on some of the queries. Thanks for that! 🙂
Glad I could help!
Have a nice day!
