I have a post category structure like this:
In Appearance > Menu, I have added 3 menu items.
One each for the categories News, Conferences, Newsletter.
However, the News page also displays posts from Conferences and Newsletter.
How do I exclude posts from subcategories from being displayed in the parent category’s page?
Thanks
I rewrote the code from a post at WP Engineer:
function wpse_filter_child_cats( $query ) {
if ( $query->is_category ) {
$queried_object = get_queried_object();
$child_cats = (array) get_term_children( $queried_object->term_id, 'category' );
if ( ! $query->is_admin )
//exclude the posts in child categories
$query->set( 'category__not_in', array_merge( $child_cats ) );
}
return $query;
}
add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'wpse_filter_child_cats' );
Give it a try by pasting the snippet in your functions.php. Please keep in mind that a post can’t belong to both parent category and child category, or you won’t get it displayed.