Title: Exclude recent posts from a specific category
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Exclude recent posts from a specific category

 *  [nickposkitt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickposkitt/)
 * (@nickposkitt)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-recent-posts-from-a-specific-category/)
 * I have a simple recent posts loop on my home page, and at the moment it’s excluding
   posts from my ‘Featured’ category just using `query_posts('cat=-3');` , I’ve 
   been experimenting with offsets etc and I can’t seem to figure out how to get
   it to do what I want.
 * I want to exclude the three most recent posts in my Featured category (id=3) 
   from the recent posts list, but include the rest. I want to do this because my
   featured content slider has three posts and I don’t want them repeated in the
   recent post loop below.
 * I could just exclude Featured posts completely and then take all but the most
   recent 3 out of the featured category every time I post a new one, but that’s
   going to be a real pain.
 * So, is this doable?
 * If I’m not being clear enough, let me know! 🙂

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 *  Thread Starter [nickposkitt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickposkitt/)
 * (@nickposkitt)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-recent-posts-from-a-specific-category/#post-1606917)
 * bump?

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