Excluding a category from Recently Added?

[Vickie]

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

[Chuck S]

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

[sfm_aceman]

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

Aceman

[sfm_aceman]

Removed: see below. I figured this out.

Aceman

[sfm_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;

[sfm_aceman]

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.

[Rids]

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

[Michael P]

You could say:

AND cat IN (XXX,XXX)

where XXX is the cat you want to list from.

[Rids]

Thanks Michael

[Rids]

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

[LMer]

$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

[mlucek]

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.

[Chuck S]

$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

[digitaldame]

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?

[The Great Hitoki]

Originally Posted by omegatron

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

I cant find display_gallery in my FTP. 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.

[Chuck S]

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

[The Great Hitoki]

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.

[Chuck S]

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

[The Great Hitoki]

Originally Posted by omegatron

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?

[Chuck S]

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.