Try in search.php to replace this:
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
....
....
<?php endwhile; ?>
with this:
<?php query_posts('category_id=#&showposts=#');?>
<?php $posts = get_posts('category=-3&numberposts=0&offset=0');
foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
....
....
<?php endforeach; ?>
Category 3 should be excluded. I did not try category=-3,-6 etc
Looks a little overkill for just excluding a category..
You could merge your category parameter with the existing query, like so..
<?php
if(!$wp_query) global $wp_query;
query_posts( array_merge( array( 'category__not_in' => array(123) ) , $wp_query->query ) );
?>
Where 123 would be the category ID.
<?php query_posts("cat=-1,-2,-3"); ?>
<?php if(have_posts()) : ?>
appears to work as well.
1, 2, and 3 are the category IDs.
Yes but you’re not preserving any existing queried vars, you’re just delcaring new ones, over-riding any that exist for the particular parameter you’re declaring…. (in this case category include/exclude)..
Which is fine, as long as there were no other query vars present that needed preserving, which is why i tend to favor the merge approach, it’s just a catch all for when users “may” have other vars in the query…
