Excluding a category from Recently Added?
 

Hi,

I have a website that has some graphic pictures on it (labor and birth pictures) and I want to know if it is possible to exclude display of pictures in this category in the Recently added display?

Thanks,
Vickie

Just edit the function display_gallery and add a clause in the function like so where cat is the cat you dont want displayed

$exclude_cat="AND cat != 'SOMECATNUMBER'";

Thats it

Where can I find this function? what file is it located in? index???

Aceman

Removed: see below. I figured this out.

Aceman

Got it working:

at line 454 in file "pp-inc.php":

$catquery = ""; $cattype = "c";
$exclude_cat="AND cat NOT IN (6019,6020,6021,6022,6023,6024,6025,6026,6027,6028,6029,6030,6031,6032,6033,6034,6035)";

if ($rcols < 0) $rcols = 4;

This excludes all the categories I do not want showing in the latest images, Most Popular, and Random Images areas on the gallery index page.

If you have a lot of categories and only want to show the images from one or two how would you go about that?

You could say:

AND cat IN (XXX,XXX)

where XXX is the cat you want to list from.

Thanks Michael :)

Doesn't seem to work either way using 5.03, I've tried both and the thumbs still come from all cats

$exclude_cat doesn't seem to work in pp5. The only query that $exclude_cat seems to be part of is in search.php. Does anyone know which query $exclude_cat should be added to prevent specific categories from appearing in the "recently added" section?

Thanks

How about adding an option to each category to tell whether to include in the random/recent/top-rated/etc. views ?

This seems to be a common request I've seen more than a few times.

$exclude_cat will work if you place it in the proper place. My post above is an example to add it to the display_gallery function

Exclude user
 

I'd like to excude a specific user from showing up in most recent. Is there a way for me to modify the code to do that?

I cant find display_gallery in my FTP. :confused: Can you be more specific in which files I would have to go into to find it? I apologize for I am still very new with all this.

its in the file pp-inc.php as stated above

OO ok now I have found it. The question I have now is what is the catnumber and where do I find that? Is it the order number because I tried that and it did not work.

order number? Your getting me confused here. You input a cat variable you dont want to display in there.

Well I dont know where to find the cat variable. Ive checked in the admin statistic log and found cat id's and I input them into the code above in my FTP but that did not work. So my question is where do I find the cat variable? :confused:

Okay a cat variable would be whichever category you do not want photos not showing from in the recent uploads etc.

Say you have a cat that has a numeric id of 507 and want to exclude those photos you would put 507 in there.