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Removing a Category from WordPress 3.1 RSS Feed

Sunday, February 27th, 2011
4 Comments

I filter a category out of my WordPress RSS feed because it’s all my tweets from the week.  I want an archive (mostly for myself) but I don’t want to blast anyone following my RSS feed with them every week.  I’d been using code like this in functions.php in my theme to screen them…

[codesyntax lang=”php”]

function myRSSFilter($query) {
    if ($query->is_feed) {
        $query->set('cat','-100');
    }
    return $query;
}

add_filter('pre_get_posts','myRSSFilter');

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Where the category has an ID of 100 so you put -100 in the code.

This doesn’t work in WordPress 3.1 and I’d not come across a fix so I did a bit of experimenting and found that this code seems to remove the unwanted category from the feed…

[codesyntax lang=”php”]

function myRSSFilter($query) {
    if ($query->is_feed) {
        $query->set ('category__not_in', '100' );
    }
    return $query;
}

add_filter('pre_get_posts','myRSSFilter');

[/codesyntax]

 

function myFilter($query) {
    if ($query->is_feed) {
        $query->set('cat','-99');
    }
return $query;
}[codesyntax lang="php"]
function myRSSFilter($query) {
    if ($query->is_feed) {
        $query->set('cat','-100');
    }
    return $query;
}

add_filter('pre_get_posts','myRSSFilter');

[/codesyntax]
add_filter('pre_get_posts','myFilter');

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4 Responses to Removing a Category from WordPress 3.1 RSS Feed

edith Saturday, April 30th, 2011

Thank you so much!
I was looking for hours for a solution!

impworks Friday, March 18th, 2011

Amanda - there may be but after a few quick experiments I've not been able to find a way to do this. I'm guessing it involves passing multiple values to
$query->set ('category__not_in', '100' ) but it may be more complex than that.

Choquj Thursday, March 17th, 2011

Do you think there is a way to filter more than one category at a time ?

amanda Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

Thank you !!!

This has been making me crazy.

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