WP_Query - Exclude Posts

1. How do I exclude a post in WordPress?
2. How do I exclude a category in a custom post?
3. What is $WP_Query?
4. What does WP_Query return?
5. What is exclude in WordPress?
6. How do I restrict search results in WordPress?
7. Can you hide a category in WordPress?
8. How do I exclude categories from a blog page?
9. How do I hide all categories in WordPress?
10. What is Wp_reset_postdata ()?
11. What is offset in WP_Query?
12. What is Posts_per_page?

How do I exclude a post in WordPress?

To Exclude a Post From WordPress Search Results

Go to your list of posts and Click the “Edit” link for the post you would like to exclude. Scroll down to the bottom right of the post. Check the box for “Exclude from Search Results.”

How do I exclude a category in a custom post?

Method 1: Exclude a Category from WordPress Using Plugin

Upon activation, you'll need to go to Settings » Category Excluder page. It will display all the categories that are available on your WordPress blog. From here, you can simply check one or multiple categories under the 'Exclude from front page' column.

What is $WP_Query?

WP_Query is a class defined in WordPress. It allows developers to write custom queries and display posts using different parameters. It is possible for developers to directly query WordPress database. However, WP_Query is one of the recommended ways to query posts from WordPress database.

What does WP_Query return?

The WP_Query object is used to query posts and will return an object containing an array of $post objects and many useful methods. The get_posts function makes use of the above WP_Query object, however, it only returns an array of $post objects making it a simpler way to find and loop over posts.

What is exclude in WordPress?

With this plugin you can exclude any page, post or whatever from the WordPress search results by checking off the corresponding checkbox on post/page edit page. ... On the plugin settings page you can also see the list of all the items that are hidden from search.

How do I restrict search results in WordPress?

Another useful method for limiting your search results to specific categories is to add a query to your search. php file right before the if statement. By using positive ID's in the query you can define which categories you want to show in your search results (show categories with ID's 1,2 and 3).

Can you hide a category in WordPress?

Sometimes you may want to create a WordPress category that users can't have access to. Thus, you have to hide the category. Unfortunately, WordPress won't let you hide categories from the homepage or archives and it will keep showing the category and its posts on the homepage.

How do I exclude categories from a blog page?

To exclude multiple categories from showing up in the WordPress blog page, simply add all of the categories ID in the same line from the code above (line 3) separated by a space as per the example below. $query ->set('cat', '-124 -125 -126'); The example code above would exclude the categories with ID 124, 125 and 126.

How do I hide all categories in WordPress?

Go to Settings and click, “Category Excluder.” In this screen, you can choose which categories you want to show. You also have the option to exclude categories from feeds, archives and the search function of WordPress.

What is Wp_reset_postdata ()?

wp_reset_postdata() restores the global $post variable to the current post in the main query (contained in the global $wp_query variable as opposed to the $sec_query variable), so that the template tags refer to the main query loop by default again.

What is offset in WP_Query?

offset is one of the arguments that you can pass to WP_Query , so it belongs in the $args array: $args = array( 'post_type' => 'post', 'category_name' => 'category', 'orderby' => 'date', 'order' => 'DESC', 'showposts' => 4, 'offset' => 4, );

What is Posts_per_page?

1. The right answer for your issue is 'posts_per_page' => -1 because -1 will return unlimited posts per page As the others users answer.