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  • August 25, 2016 at 5:00 pm #677664
    zimbo

    I have the ‘Categories: Archive by Categories’ widget in my sidebar. Clicking ‘Select Category’ displays a scroll-able dropdown list of all categories.

    There is one category however that I want to exclude from the dropdown list so that users/readers cannot select or see any posts in that category.

    How can I do that?

    August 25, 2016 at 6:09 pm #677698
    Basilis

    Hi zimbo!

    Can you please show us a link that the widget is in place, so we can try debug the issue?
    We would really appreciate.

    Thanks a lot

    Best regards,
    Basilis

    August 25, 2016 at 6:16 pm #677704
    zimbo

    Page here.

    I want to stop DoNotShow and NewsTicker categories from appearing in the ‘Categories: Archive by Categories’ widget dropdown list in the sidebar.

    August 25, 2016 at 11:17 pm #677835
    Yigit

    Hey!

    Please add following code to Functions.php file in Appearance > Editor 

    add_filter( 'widget_categories_args', 'avia_exclude_widget_category', 10, 1 );
add_filter( 'widget_categories_dropdown_args', 'avia_exclude_widget_category', 10, 1 );
function avia_exclude_widget_category( $cat_args ) {
$cat_args['exclude'] = array('11','38');
return $cat_args;
}

    and replace 11 and 38 with your category IDs

    Cheers!
    Yigit

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by Yigit.
    August 26, 2016 at 1:59 pm #678123
    zimbo

    Thanks Yigit but there is an error in that code – line 3 should be
    function avia_exclude_widget_category( $cat_args ) {
    and not wpsites_… but I changed it, and it now works. :-)

    August 26, 2016 at 2:13 pm #678129
    Yigit

    Hi!

    Yes, i was editing the code and appearantly forgot to change it :) Thanks for the hint. I will update my post. Glad it worked for you :)

    Regards,
    Yigit

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