Exclude custom post type category from homepage

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Hi all,

I am using a Strict Themes, Theme Forset theme called Recital.

It uses the following custom post_type, category and taxonomy to define a portfolio homepage layout:

post_type=”st_project”
category=”st_category”
tag=”st_tag”

The URL is something like this:
/wp-admin/term.php?taxonomy=st_category&tag_ID=115&post_type=st_project…

I am trying to exclude a category called ‘wastelands’ which is the tag_ID ‘115’ from showing on the homepage. I have been trying the following code added to the functions.php but it is not working.

Please help…

Very best,
Hannah

<?php

function exclude_cat( $query ) {
	if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
		if ( is_post_type( 'st_project' ) ) {
			$tax_query = $query->get( 'tax_query' ) ?: array();

			$tax_query[] = array(
				'taxonomy' => 'st_category',
				'field'    => 'slug',
				'terms'    => 'wastelands',
				'operator' => 'NOT IN',
			);

			$query->set( 'tax_query', $tax_query );
		}
	}

	return $query;
}
add_action('pre_get_posts','exclude_cat');

?>
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