Almost every site has a category that should not be on display — Uncategorized, an internal tag, an archive of old announcements.
The listing takes term IDs to exclude, and an include list if you would rather name the few you want than the many you do not.
For every Taxonomy Listing setting in one place, see the Taxonomy Listing guide.
Before You Start
- Edition: Pro — the Taxonomy Listing block needs Nexter Blocks Pro.
- Block to enable: Taxonomy Listing, switched on under Nexter > Blocks in your WordPress dashboard.
- The term IDs you want. Open a category to edit it and the ID is in the address bar as
tag_ID=.
Steps
- Select your Taxonomy Listing block and find the include and exclude fields.
- Enter the term IDs, separated by commas, then publish.
How It Behaves
Both fields take a comma-separated list of IDs and are applied to the query before anything renders.
- Exclude removes exactly those terms. Measured on a 7-category site: excluding two IDs returned 5 terms, with precisely the named two gone.
- Include restricts the list to those terms. Measured: one ID returned exactly one term.
- Several IDs are separated by commas. Measured with two, both applied.
- Include and exclude are separate fields. Use one or the other; naming the same term in both is asking for confusion.
- Excluding a parent does not exclude its children. They are separate terms with their own IDs, so list them too if you want them gone.
- Type a number into the item count; do not leave it blank. Measured on 5.0.6: a blank field renders one term rather than all of them, and so does
0. Reported to the developers. - Measured with Nexter Blocks Pro deactivated: the block renders nothing at all — not a wrapper, not a message, zero output. This is a Pro-only block.
Limitations
- Pro only — nothing renders with Pro deactivated.
- IDs, not names or slugs. A readable slug will not work here.
- IDs are fragile. Deleting and recreating a term gives it a new ID and silently breaks the setting, with no warning on the page.
- The exclusion is per block. Another Taxonomy Listing elsewhere on the site needs its own copy of the list.
- A category hidden here is still public. Its archive is still reachable and still indexable; this only controls what this listing shows.
- Child terms are not excluded with their parent.
Troubleshooting
Where do I find a term ID?
Open the category for editing. The address bar ends with tag_ID= followed by the number.
The exclusion stopped working
A term was probably deleted and recreated, which changes its ID. Re-enter the current IDs.
A sub-category is still showing
Excluding a parent does not exclude its children. Add their IDs as well, or limit the listing to top-level terms.
Nothing is being excluded
Check the format: numeric IDs separated by commas, with no slugs or names mixed in.
