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Hide one of the October Rainlab Blog categories?

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?

Solution

  • 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