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1. danharper
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   I'm trying to get my WordPress theme to retrieve all posts, except ones in a certain category. I'm using the following code:
   query_posts('orderby=post_date&order=desc&cat=-7');

   While this does successfully remove all posts from category 7, the posts do not display in order. They seem to show in a random order.
   I initially thought maybe it was a glitch in 2.5; but I've updated to 2.6, and same thing!

   How can I fix this? I'm going crazy over it!

2. moshu
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   Maybe reading carefully the documentationhelps:
   Template_Tags/query_posts#Orderby_Parameters

3. danharper
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   No, that doesn't work. BTW, when I put orderby=post_date, I meant to put orderby_date.

   I've also tried
   query_posts(array('category__not_in'=>array(7),'showposts'=>10,'orderby'=>'date','order'=>DESC));
   Which is code I got from the Codex, and isn't working.

4. danharper
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   Hey, sorry for the double-post; but I really need help with this! If someone can help, it'd be greatly appreciated.

   The only thing I can think of, is that I'm running the site on a Windows test server; but unless Apache/SQL on Windows somehow interprets things differently, that's just stupid!

   Thanks.

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