Title: Exclude category
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Exclude category

 *  Resolved [summer_azure](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luannvodder/)
 * (@luannvodder)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-category-20/)
 * I’ve been using the fix posted by JGeo a year ago for excluding a category, and
   then re-implementing that fix with each update of the plugin. Unfortunately, 
   I can no longer get that fix to work and I’m not sure how to get the results 
   I need. It is imperative for our site that I be able to exclude 1 category from
   the recent posts.
 * We love this plugin and want to keep using it. Would you please add the ability
   to exclude 1 or more categories to the plugin via a dropdown in the widget, and/
   or post a code snippet here so I can make the fix myself in the meantime? I’d
   gladly make a donation to not have to rework the plugin code each time. 🙂
 * thanks,
    Luann
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-with-excerpts/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-with-excerpts/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Stephanie Leary](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sillybean/)
 * (@sillybean)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-category-20/#post-4413306)
 * Hi, Luann! That’s a great question.
 * I’ve added a filter called `recent_posts_with_excerpts_query` to the plugin in
   2.5.2, which I’m uploading now. You can use it a lot like `pre_get_posts`, but
   it’ll be specific to this widget. Add this to your theme’s `functions.php` file
   or a custom plugin file:
 *     ```
       add_filter('recent_posts_with_excerpts_query', 'my_excluded_cat');
       function my_excluded_cat($query) {
         $query->set( 'cat', '-1,-1347' );
       }
       ```
   

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 * [exclude](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/exclude/)

 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Stephanie Leary](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sillybean/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-category-20/#post-4413306)
 * Status: resolved