Title: exclude parameter not working?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# exclude parameter not working?

 *  Resolved [surrogatekey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/surrogatekey/)
 * (@surrogatekey)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-parameter-not-working/)
 * Thanks for a great plugin. I’m having trouble using the exclude parameter to 
   exclude posts with a particular tag. For example, I want to show all the posts
   in a page’s category, except those tagged with “edition-intro”. I’ve tried various
   combinations of this shortcode:
 * [autonav display=”posts,title” postid=”category:*” exclude=”edition-intro” count
   =10 size=”thumbnail”]
 * but can’t seem to get anything to work. I’ve tried this using both tags and categories
   as the excluded slug, but can’t get either to work. Any suggestions would be 
   appreciated, and thanks again –
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/autonav/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/autonav/)

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 *  Anonymous User
 * (@anonymized-126485)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-parameter-not-working/#post-4968531)
 * Regrettably, `exclude=` followed by a name excludes the _slug_ by that name, 
   not posts with that as a _tag_. Excluding posts by tag would require a fair bit
   of new coding beyond what the WordPress core currently provides.

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 * [parameters](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/parameters/)
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 * Last activity: [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-parameter-not-working/#post-4968531)
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