Title: exclude categories in version 1.5
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# exclude categories in version 1.5

 *  [km](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmaisch/)
 * (@kmaisch)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-categories-in-version-15/)
 * I’ve done a search and have found a few things on excluding categories, but the
   plugins I have tried and other hacks I have read seem to be for older versions
   of WordPress.
 * What is the easiest way to hide a certain category from the main index, from 
   the search/archives and from the dropdown_cats?
 * Cheers,
    Kim

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 *  [Lorelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorelle/)
 * (@lorelle)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-categories-in-version-15/#post-262763)
 * You use one of the [Conditional Tags](http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags)
   for is_category. There are examples there for the usage on these, and if the 
   list is generated by [Template Tags](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags),
   then check that template tag for the category list for an exclude option like
   at [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_cats](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_cats)
 *  Thread Starter [km](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmaisch/)
 * (@kmaisch)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-categories-in-version-15/#post-262768)
 * I have hidden the category from the dropdown cats by using:
 * ?php dropdown_cats(‘0′,’All’,’name’,’asc’,’0′,’0′,’1′,’0′,”,’36’); ?
 * The last parameter ’36’ is the category ID that I want to hide.
 * I cant find anywhere in my index.php template where is_category or list_cats 
   is. I can find the_category and the_content… not sure how to make these conditional
   though. Hmm :/
 * Or should I be editing wp files not in my template directory?
 * Kim

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-categories-in-version-15/#post-262768)
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