How to exclude categories from a sidebar with active widgets in it?

Question

Is there a way to exclude certain categories from a widgetised sidebar? I've got categories that are associated with custom post types and ones associated with my blog - I don't want to display the CPT categories when viewing my blog.

Any ideas? All I can think of is that I have to hard code the sidebar instead and ditch the widgetised version.

Answer 1

If i understand correctly, a quick solution could be using something like Widget Logic and create a custom menu for each category, then use whatever Conditional Tags applies.// such as is_category() or in_category( '5' ) Or, if you don't want to use a plug-in, you could try duplicating the widget and then adding the conditional tag there... hope that helps!

Answer 2

The categories in widget are retrieved in following way:

wp_list_categories(apply_filters('widget_categories_args', $cat_args));

So you can make use of this filter to modify arguments.

However it might be simpler to use alternative widget, for example one from Widgets Reloaded, that offers more control via interface.