can you paste the full code of that template into a http://pastebin.com/ and post the link to it here?
Thanks Alchymyth, here is the code:
[code moderated as per forum rules - please use the pastebin]
I do not know how things have changed since the removal of cat ids or how to get around that.
Sorry, check this link I believe:
http://pastebin.com/ysvU4zpP
I guess my main issue is that I have no idea how to assign/change category ids now that they are no longer supported by wordpress. Without this or to get around it, I cannot exclude a category from my loop. Is there a way to add this functionality?
I still am having trouble finding what number corresponds to what category that belongs in the ‘&cat=-3’. How do you know what a category’s number is now that the category id’s have been removed from the page?
This seems simple, I am just not figuring it out.
Found this out and never followed up on it. When you are editing a category in the dashboard the ID shows up int he browser address bar right after a “category&tag_ID=”. The following number is the category id.