Hide posts from specific categories from "You might also like" section

Hey donnaschilder,

Can you give us more context on this? so we can accurately provide an answer to it.

Best regards,
Nikko

Hi donnaschilder,

I apologize for the delayed response.
The “You might also like” section is not actually based on categories but based on tags, you can find its query in wp-content > themes > enfold > includes > related-posts.php (line 77-84):

$my_query = get_posts(
    array(
        'tag__in' => $tag_ids,
        'post_type' => get_post_type($this_id),
        'showposts'=>$postcount, 'ignore_sticky_posts'=>1,
        'orderby'=>'rand',
        'post__not_in' => array($this_id))
    );

based on what WordPress Codex describes in https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_posts/
You can add another argument which is category, however I may need enough context to give the exact code that you need, since you may have multiple categories and if you only have a single category for example the current post is category 1 should it show just category 1 or show all categories except for category 3? and if you have a single category 3 in your current post which related post should it show?

Best regards,
Nikko