Title: Excluding multiple posts from a widget
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Excluding multiple posts from a widget

 *  Resolved [safin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/safin/)
 * (@safin)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excluding-multiple-posts-from-a-widget/)
 * Hello,
    I have a custom skin on my wordpress blog which has two containers for
   posts. My aim is to query the same categories but not show posts pulled in the
   first container call.
 * Here is a exclude code i added in the first container
 *     ```
       <?php $getposts = new WP_query(); $getposts->query('showposts='.$options['leftpostnum'].'&amp;cat='.$section); ?>
       		<?php global $wp_query; $wp_query->in_the_loop = true; ?>
       		<?php while ($getposts->have_posts()) : $getposts->the_post(); ?>
       		<?php $do_not_duplicate[] = $post->ID; ?>
                       ....................
                       Come html Code there
                       .....................
       		<?php endwhile; ?>
       ```
   
 * Basically $do_not_duplicate is an array with all post id’s
 * Now in the second block i am adding this to the query using the wordpress function
   post__not_in
 *     ```
       <?php $getposts = new WP_query(); $getposts->query('showposts=10&amp;offset='.$options['rightpostnum'].'&amp;cat='.$section.'&amp;post__not_in='.$do_not_duplicate); ?>
       		<?php global $wp_query; $wp_query->in_the_loop = true; ?>
       		<?php while ($getposts->have_posts()) : $getposts->the_post(); ?>
       		<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
       		<?php endwhile; ?>
       ```
   
 * Unfortunately that doesn’t seem to work. This is the error i get.
 * > Warning: array_map() [function.array-map]: Argument #2 should be an array in/
   > home/xyz/public_html/wp-includes/query.php on line 1725
   > Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in /home/xyz/
   > public_html/wp-includes/query.php on line 1725
 * The wordpress verion is 2.7.1.
 * I used vardumps to check and the array is there before second query executes.
   However in the query file throws an error.
 * Any help.
    Thanks

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excluding-multiple-posts-from-a-widget/#post-1074924)
 * Try:
 *     ```
       $args = array(
           'showposts' =>10,
           'offset' => $options['rightpostnum'],
           'cat' => $section,
           'post__not_in' => array($do_not_duplicate)
       	);
       $getposts = new WP_query(); $getposts->query($args);
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [safin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/safin/)
 * (@safin)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excluding-multiple-posts-from-a-widget/#post-1075085)
 * Hi,
    That didn’t work. Adding an array() makes it multi dimensional and although
   the error message is not shown, it basically does nothing also. See the query
   that executes.
 *     ```
       Time: 0.000117063522339
       Query: SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.* FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_term_relationships ON (wp_posts.ID = wp_term_relationships.object_id) INNER JOIN wp_term_taxonomy ON (wp_term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id = wp_term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id) WHERE 1=1 AND wp_posts.ID NOT IN (1) AND wp_term_taxonomy.taxonomy = 'category' AND wp_term_taxonomy.term_id IN ('56', '92', '93') AND wp_posts.post_type = 'post' AND (wp_posts.post_status = 'publish' OR wp_posts.post_status = 'private') GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 3
       Call from: require, require_once, include, WP_Query->query, WP_Query->get_posts
       ```
   
 * Notice the **wp_posts.ID NOT IN (1)** part.
 * I did a print_r immediately after the args
 *     ```
       $args = array(
           'showposts' => $options['rightpostnum'],
           'cat' => $section,
           'post__not_in' => array($do_not_duplicate)
       	 );
       	 print_r(array($do_not_duplicate));
       ```
   
 * And i get this
    `Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => 335 [1] => 295 [2] => 285 [3] 
   => 275 [4] => 241 [5] => 231 [6] => 305 [7] => 147 [8] => 140 [9] => 125 [10]
   => 122 [11] => 111 [12] => 106 [13] => 96 [14] => 80 ) )` Notice the double array
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excluding-multiple-posts-from-a-widget/#post-1075128)
 * You are right I didn’t confirm the results, but this worked
 *     ```
       $args = array(
         'post__not_in' => $do_not_duplicate
       	);
       ```
   
 * Note that I can’t confirm what your $section value is.
 *  Thread Starter [safin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/safin/)
 * (@safin)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excluding-multiple-posts-from-a-widget/#post-1075146)
 * Thanks, that did it.
 * For future, any particular reason why the first method was not working? And this
   works.
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excluding-multiple-posts-from-a-widget/#post-1075157)
 * Can’t say, just had better luck using the argument array method.

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