How to exclude certain categories from appearing within the Related Products section?

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• Air

  December 2014 Posts: 10,970

  Hello:-)
  
  As much as I would like to help it is rather woocommerce question, and should be asked to them:-) You can also try to google it, cause I believe, that some people before might have asked for same thing.
  
  Good luck!
  
  With regards.
• PrimalHK

  December 2014 Posts: 4

  Hi again!
  
  I think I may have phrased my question a bit incorrectly since we are not using the woocommerce platform at all!
  
  I believe this is a function that is part of the actual wordpress theme since it's using the "Works (Portfolio)" section.
  
  Basically, we would like to be able to exclude certain categories from showing up from a genre result.
  
  Example:
  
  http://maestaitalia.com/genre/ties/
  Any images with the category "Ties" shows up here
  
  When the visitors click on one of the pictures, for example "Messina - Black", they will go to this page
  http://maestaitalia.com/products/messina-black/
  
  Note that they have two category tags, 'Ties' and 'Messina'
  
  Under the "Other Available Colors" (Which is basically the same thing as "Similar Works" in the original theme, we've just renamed it to that), we can see other works which contain the same category, both 'Messina' and 'Ties'.
  
  We would like to know if you could help us in figuring out how to exclude certain categories from appearing under the "Other Available Colors" (Old: Similar Works) section so that we can only display related works with the tag 'Messina' without displaying 'Ties' as well.
  
  Thank you!
  
  
• Air

  December 2014 Posts: 10,970

  Hello again:-)
  
  Sorry, I got mislead by "products" name. You are right this is part of theme.
  
  This feature is rather simple addition, so it wont behave as flexible as you would wish.
  
  However you can make such change for filtering by adding this code in fame\advance\utilities\post__work__gallery__blog.php line ~500 . Change this

  
                              array(
                                  'taxonomy' => A13_CPT_WORK_TAXONOMY,
                                  'field' => 'slug',
                                  'terms' => $__search,
                                  'operator' => 'IN'
                              ),
  

  to

  
                              array(
                                  'taxonomy' => A13_CPT_WORK_TAXONOMY,
                                  'field' => 'slug',
                                  'terms' => $__search,
                                  'operator' => 'IN'
                              ),
  	                        array(
  		                        'taxonomy' => A13_CPT_WORK_TAXONOMY,
  		                        'field' => 'slug',
  		                        'terms' => 'category_name', //category of works you want to filter out
  		                        'operator' => 'NOT IN'
  	                        ),
  

  Interesting part is terms' => 'category_name', //category of works you want to filter out
  You can also change this part to something like this to add more categories
  terms' => array( 'action', 'comedy' ),
  
  Hope this helps.
  
  With kind regards.