Title: exclude will not work
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# exclude will not work

 *  Resolved [msuhl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msuhl/)
 * (@msuhl)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-will-not-work/)
 * Hi
    First of all – thx for a great plugin 🙂
 * I’m having some problems with ‘exclude’
 * I have tried to exclude through the menu and in the shortcode, with categori 
   name and number, but it does not seem to work.
    I have tried categori with the
   same number and that works.
 * The shortcode I’ve tried is:
 * [wp-tiles posts_query=’exclude=76′]
 * Any thoughts on what I’m doing wrong?
 * regards
    Msuhl
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-tiles/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-tiles/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Mike Martel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike_cowobo/)
 * (@mike_cowobo)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-will-not-work/#post-3812915)
 * Hi Msuhl, unfortunately this won’t work, as the exclude parameter excludes posts,
   not categories.
 * You can only list categories you do want to show, not the other way around – 
   so add the category ids you want to separated by comma’s as the categories parameter.
 *  Thread Starter [msuhl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msuhl/)
 * (@msuhl)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-will-not-work/#post-3812916)
 * Hi Mike
 * That explains my problem 🙂
 * I’ll use the add-solution.
 * Thx for the answer.
 * Regards
    Msuhl

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-will-not-work/#post-3812916)
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