[Resolved] remove CPT from /category/category-slug/ page

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[tyeB]

I have a similar issue to this post:

https://toolset.com/forums/topic/how-to-exclude-a-specific-custom-post-type-from-a-taxonomy-archive-loop/

I have a CPT (articles) sharing the default WP Categories - so have used this code to only return posts on the /category/category-slug/ templates:

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'exclude_cpt' );
function exclude_cpt( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_category() ) {
        $query->set('post_type','post');
    }
    return $query;
}

But this returns both my posts and my CPT?

If I change to this:

$query->set('post_type','article');

Then it only returns CPT articles??

How do I change this to only show my posts?

Confused 🙁

[Minesh Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

I will try to help you as fast and effective as possible, so you can go on with your project and to remove your confusion. I would like to review your setup.

1)
Could you please share problem URL and where you have added above code?

2)
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[Minesh Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

Could you please share your problem URL?

[Minesh Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

I checked but I can see that the query we set at run time is not set and its displaying post from both post type.

*** Please make a FULL BACKUP of your database and website.***
Could you please try to resolve your issue by deactivating all third-party plugins as well as with the default theme to check for any possible conflicts with any of the plugins or themes?