Exclude Category – The Events Calendar (not pro)

[Marc Simpson]

Hi,

I’m attempting to exclude a category from the main calendar page (all views). I’ve found several variations of the answer given here: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/exclude-one-category-from-upcoming-events-list/#post-46807

I’ve added these to my child themes functions.php file and it has no effect.

Here is my code:
// from http://snippi.com/s/rd9pqcd
add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘exclude_events_category’ );
function exclude_events_category( $query ) {
if ( $query->query_vars[‘post_type’] == TribeEvents::POSTTYPE && $query->query_vars[‘eventDisplay’] == ‘upcoming’ || $query->query_vars[‘eventDisplay’] == ‘past’ && !is_tax(TribeEvents::TAXONOMY) && empty( $query->query_vars[‘suppress_filters’] ) ) {
$query->set( ‘tax_query’, array(
array(
‘taxonomy’ => TribeEvents::TAXONOMY,
‘field’ => ‘slug’,
‘terms’ => array(‘replaced-with-slug-of-excluded-category’),
‘operator’ => ‘NOT IN’
)
)
);
}
return $query;
}

I noticed these answers were from The Events Calendar PRO forum. Should this solution be working with the standard version?
Is there a different solution for the standard version to exclude categories?

Thanks in advance.

[Nico]

Hi Marc,

Thanks for reaching out to us! Unfortunately we are not able to provide support in the pre-sales forum 🙁

Give this snippet a try instead:

https://gist.github.com/elimn/c47fb3e65d437c2479bd

We are happy to assist our premium users with support issues via our premium forums, please log into the account that has been created when the purchase was made. If you have not purchased one of our premium plugins, you can post in our open source forum. We review that forum weekly, mainly for bug reports.

I’ll go ahead and close out this thread, but please do post in the appropriate forum and we will assist you.

Best,
Nico

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