Hide one of the October Rainlab Blog categories?

Question

How to hide one of the October Rainlab Blog categories? One of the categories should not be displayed in the Categories List on page. I want to use one hidden category only for filtering and display special posts on HomePage. Any ideas?

Hardik Satasiya · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-08T06:16:15.927

I am not sure what do you mean by "hide" here. but I guess you Don't want to Display it on Front-end (by Default)

You can extend Category model to do that.

if you have relative plugin / or / create your own plugin and in Plugin.php file define/override boot method and you can define something like this

use App;
use October\Rain\Database\Builder;

[...other code ...]

public function boot(){

    \RainLab\Blog\Models\Category::extend(function($model) {
        // App::runningInBackend() you can also use this one to make sure it will 
        // execute on frontend only
        if(!App::runningInBackend()) {
            $model::addGlobalScope('id', function(Builder $builder) {
                $builder->where('id', '!=', 2);
            });            
        }
    });
}

Now, at the front-end side it will not show the categorie which is having id => 2

May be this can help you and If you need anything else please comment. For plugin related details you can check here : https://octobercms.com/docs/plugin/registration

This code hide the category, but also its posts on all pages of the site. If someone wants to hide a category on only one page, then just use the appropriate check. — Elisseii, Dec 19 '17 at 14:53

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 08 '17 at 16:58

Select multiple IDs of categories. Example.

use App;
use October\Rain\Database\Builder;

[...other code ...]

public function boot(){

    \RainLab\Blog\Models\Category::extend(function($model) {
        // App::runningInBackend() you can also use this one to make sure it will 
        // execute on frontend only
        if(!App::runningInBackend()) {
            $model::addGlobalScope('id', function(Builder $builder) {
                $builder->where([
                    ['id', '!=', 2],
                    ['id', '!=', 3],
                    ['id', '!=', 4]
                ]);
            });            
        }
    });
}

Now will not show the categories which is having id => 2,3,4

yes, now you have $builder, whatever conditions you like you can add them :) — Hardik Satasiya, Nov 09 '17 at 06:57

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 21 '17 at 18:27

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A little shorter version with whereNotIn eloquent method

$builder->whereNotIn('id', [22, 32, 44]);

answered Dec 21 '17 at 18:27

Edgars Ozolins

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Hide one of the October Rainlab Blog categories?

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