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1. frmars
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hello
   After a 2 hours search, I am just lost.

   My theme is quite a complex one, and complexity is growing. On my home, a first column already sorts various categories :

   <?php query_posts('cat=-6,-25,-50,-51&paged='.$paged); ?>

   I now need, IN THE SAME FORMULA, to exclude a specific category AND ALL ITS CHILDREN.

   This specific category and children are meant to create a kind of "sub-blog" and must not appear in the main flow of articles.

   Please, could you help ?

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   I've seen messages about this on the forum, but never so complex.

   (see http://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-posts-from-children-categories-with-query_postsget_posts?replies=4

   or

   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-exclude-child-category-content-from-parent-category-default-display

2. frmars
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   May I add that I created the category I want to exclude SPECIFICALLY, so that I could exclude (but how ?) straight away all its children from the homepage ?

3. frmars
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Can anyone help me ?

4. vtxyzzy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   This is UNTESTED, but it should be close:

   <?php $blog_cat = 22;  // The blog parent category ID
   $cat_excludes = array(6,25,50,51);
   $children = get_categories("child_of=$blog_cat");
   foreach ($children as $child) {
      $cat_excludes[] = $child->cat_ID;
   }
   $args = array(
      'paged' => $paged,
      'category__not_in' => $cat_excludes
   );
   query_posts($args); ?>

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