Show parent items, ignore subcategory items?

Stephen Meehan · Oct 25th 2019

Hi

I'm making a 'video guide' collection, using collections and categories. Most of my categories are single level, but one of them has a subcategory:

about
about/team

On the /about category page it'd be handy to only show items categorised as about. It currently shows items from both about and team. I don't want any items from the subcategory team shown.

As I can't filter perch_collection with catDepth, I was wondering what's the recommended way to achieve this?

JordinB · Oct 25th 2019

Can’t you use the “each” callback function and return an empty string if it’s not the category you’re looking for?

https://docs.grabaperch.com/ru…back-functions-with-each/

hus_hmd · Oct 26th 2019

Hi Stephen,

Perch allows you to exclude categories by prepending ! to the category path:

PHP

perch_collection('Video Guide', [
'category' => ['guides/about/', '!guides/about/team/']
]);