Exclude Events Category from all queries (but not for admins)

[Diego Hinz]

Dear Support Team,

awhile ago I started a thread asking to exclude a certain category from all queries, but not for the administrator. I had found several topics but the snippets posted there did not seem to work for me: Whenever I used the list-view widget (TEC pro), all filters, even those set by the widget, were removed.

I have now managed to create a function that filters a specific category on all queries:

function tribe_exclude_events_category( $wp_query ) {
// only filter the query if the user cannot edit pages (< editor)
		 if (!current_user_can('edit_pages')) {
			$exclude_cats = array('exclude-me'); 

			// Join with current tax query if set
			if (is_array($wp_query->get( 'tax_query')))
				{$tax_query =$wp_query->get( 'tax_query');}
			else
				{$tax_query = array();}

			// Setup an exclude from the tribe_events_cat taxonomy
			$tax_query[] = array(
				'taxonomy'  => Tribe__Events__Main::TAXONOMY,   // sidebar ist: "tribe_events_cat"
				'field'     => 'slug',
				'terms'     => $exclude_cats,
				'operator'  => 'NOT IN'
			);

			$wp_query->set('tax_query', $tax_query);
		}

		return $wp_query;
}

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'tribe_exclude_events_category', 10, 1 );

This is basically the code from this topic with a couple of changes. The most significant is, that the wrong tax_query was selected by the snippet in the other thread:
It must be $wp_query->get( 'tax_query') instead of $wp_query->tax_query

I just wanted to share this with the TEC community – maybe it will be helpful for others in the future.

Happy coding, everyone!

[Trisha]

Hello, Diego!

Thank you for using The Events Calendar and thank you so much for your kindness in sharing this with the community!

Have a great weekend!

Cheers,
Trisha

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