Title: Exclude Subcategories
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Exclude Subcategories

 *  [Jeremy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/softlord/)
 * (@softlord)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-subcategories/)
 * Hiya-
 * I’m switching to this from LinkedWithin, and love it so far. Unfortunately there
   doesn’t seem to be a way to exlude specific subcategories (not top-level categories)
   from the list. Would it be possible to add this feature?
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 *  Plugin Author [WebberZone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webberzone/)
 * (@webberzone)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-subcategories/#post-7104197)
 * I’m not sure what LinkedWithin is but doesn’t the sub-category exclusion setting
   work? By default it pulls out all categories and sub-categories by slug
 *  Thread Starter [Jeremy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/softlord/)
 * (@softlord)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-subcategories/#post-7104377)
 * The auto-complete seems to only display top level category slugs, not sub-category
   ones. At least on my install (current version of WP and plugin)
 *  Plugin Author [WebberZone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webberzone/)
 * (@webberzone)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-subcategories/#post-7104391)
 * On all my installs, this pulls in every sub-category as well. Could you please
   do a clean deinstall and reinstall of the plugin.

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 * Last reply from: [WebberZone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webberzone/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-subcategories/#post-7104391)
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