{"id":1128160,"date":"2016-06-16T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T21:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/exclude-event-category-from-calendar-but-not-custom-query\/"},"modified":"2016-06-16T14:00:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T21:00:36","slug":"exclude-event-category-from-calendar-but-not-custom-query","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/exclude-event-category-from-calendar-but-not-custom-query\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclude Event Category from Calendar but NOT custom Query"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s fairly easy to exclude a category globally using code from forum using the hook: <\/p>\n<p>pre_get_posts<\/p>\n<p>However, on the main calendar pages I&#8217;m running a custom slider using  events. I want all categories to show in the slider but not in any of the calendar views below it. When I use pre_get_posts it effects not only the calendar, but my slider too removing the category from both.<\/p>\n<p>Is there some way to only remove the category without removing it from my slider too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1128160","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Exclude Event Category from Calendar but NOT custom Query -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/exclude-event-category-from-calendar-but-not-custom-query\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Exclude Event Category from Calendar but NOT custom Query -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It&#8217;s fairly easy to exclude a category globally using code from forum using the hook: pre_get_posts However, on the main calendar pages I&#8217;m running a custom slider using events. 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