{"id":1278186,"date":"2017-05-03T11:41:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T18:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/function-to-limit-events-by-category\/"},"modified":"2017-05-04T12:28:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T19:28:33","slug":"function-to-limit-events-by-category","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/function-to-limit-events-by-category\/","title":{"rendered":"Function to Limit Events By Category"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I want to write a custom function that will limit the calendar events query to only the results from a specific category.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone know how write a WordPress function, such as &#8216;pre_get_posts&#8217;, to limit the events by a category?<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\nfunction limit_events_by_category( $query ) {<br \/>\n\t\/* code to limit the events by a category *\/<br \/>\n\treturn $query;<br \/>\n}<br \/>\nadd_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'limit_events_by_category' );<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>(Also, that will not affect any theme custom navigation, thanks)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1278186","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>Function to Limit Events By Category -<\/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\/function-to-limit-events-by-category\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Function to Limit Events By Category -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, I want to write a custom function that will limit the calendar events query to only the results from a specific category. 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