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1. acornrevolution
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I am using the following code on my front page for querying recent posts. I am excluding category 3, however this also excludes any posts that have several categories, one of which is category 3 (i.e. a post in category 15 and 3). How can I include these kinds of posts?

   <?php
       $recentPosts = new WP_Query();
       $recentPosts->query('showposts=5&cat=-3');
   ?>
   <?php while ($recentPosts->have_posts()) : $recentPosts->the_post(); ?>
       <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
   <?php endwhile; ?>

2. danoprey
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Don't know if this is the best solution, but the obvious answer is to limit it to showing all the categories except category 3.

   e.g.

   <?php
       $recentPosts = new WP_Query();
       $recentPosts->query('showposts=5&cat=1,2,4,5');
   ?>

3. Shane G.
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,

   Check with this plugin:

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/query-posts/

   Thanks,

   Shane G.

4. acornrevolution
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   danoprey, that worked! I wasn't going to do it at first, since I have 9 categories, but they are fixed, so I wont have to worry about adding more. Thanks!

   Shane G., this wasn't for the sidebar, but thanks!

5. nimitmangal
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Lets say I have a category with ID=3 and it's many more sub-categories.
   But I want to display posts only from catID=3 not it's sub-cat...
   How can we modify this code...?

   $recentPosts->query('showposts=5&cat=1,2,4,5');

   Nimit

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