Exclude Category not working
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I’ve been using this plugin for a while now and it has been working great. Recently a client had a request to have the ability to exclude certain posts from the list. I have edited the code to exclude a certain category, but posts with that category are still showing. If I change the code to only show posts with the new category, it works fine, but it will not exclude the category. Here is my code:
<?php $args = array( 'limit' => 5, 'range' => 'monthly', 'order_by' => 'views', 'post_type' => 'post', 'cat' => '-2933' ); wpp_get_mostpopular( $args ); ?>Any help with this would be appreciated.
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Yes, the post I was trying to exclude does have multiple categories. That was one of my original thoughts as to why it wasn’t being excluded from the list. I tested removing all categories other than the one I want to exclude and it still didn’t work.
Hi there!
Sorry for the late reply. Last week was a hectic one.
Alright, for the test I added the stats_category parameter to $args to see the post category on the frontend and also removed the cat parameter, then ran the following code on localhost:
<?php if ( function_exists('wpp_get_mostpopular') ) { $args = array( 'limit' => 10, 'range' => 'monthly', 'order_by' => 'views', 'post_type' => 'post', 'stats_category' => 1 ); wpp_get_mostpopular( $args ); } ?>Outputs:
Now, excluding the Random category using the cat parameter:
<?php if ( function_exists('wpp_get_mostpopular') ) { $args = array( 'limit' => 10, 'range' => 'monthly', 'order_by' => 'views', 'post_type' => 'post', 'stats_category' => 1, 'cat' => '-1' ); wpp_get_mostpopular( $args ); } ?>Outputs:
As you can see, posts associated to the Random category were filtered out. So:
- Are you running the latest version of the plugin?
- Is there a caching plugin installed on your site right now?
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