How to Exclude Sub-category Products from a Category-based Feed

When creating a category-based feed in CTX Feed Pro, all products under that category, including those in sub-categories, are automatically included. This guide walks you through how to exclude specific sub-category products from your feed using the Advanced Filter.

The Challenge

Let’s say your Clothing category contains two sub-categories:

• T-Shirts
• Hoodies

When you create a feed filtered by Clothing, CTX Feed Pro pulls in products from both sub-categories. But what if you only want T-Shirts and need to leave out Hoodies? That’s exactly what we’ll solve here.

The Solution: Advanced Filter

The Advanced Filter lets you add a condition to exclude products from a specific sub-category, even if the parent category is already included in your feed.

Step-by-Step Guide

Step 1 — Create your category-based feed Set up your feed as usual and include the Clothing category using the Include a Category filter option.

Step 2 — Open the Advanced Filter Navigate to the Advanced Filter section within your feed configuration.

Step 3 — Add an exclusion condition Create a new condition with the following logic:

Product Category → does not contain → Hoodies

This tells CTX Feed Pro to skip any product assigned to the Hoodies sub-category.

Step 4 — Save and generate the feed. Once the condition is set, save your settings and generate the feed.

Result

Your feed will now include only the products assigned to the T-Shirts sub-category. All Hoodies products will be excluded, even though they belong to the parent Clothing category.