Title: Plugin does nothing
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Plugin does nothing

 *  [darkmatter661](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darkmatter661/)
 * (@darkmatter661)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-nothing-1/)
 * I’m running the latest version on [http://www.saugusfootball.com](http://www.saugusfootball.com)
   and I excluded a specific Category (Sponsors) as well as the specific post (SPECIAL
   THANK YOU’s) and the post still appears everywhere…
 * I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong.
 * Thanks.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-exclude/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-exclude/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Paul Menard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pmenard/)
 * (@pmenard)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-nothing-1/#post-4114862)
 * [@darkmatter661](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darkmatter661/),
 * Was this working for an older version of Simply Exclude? Or have you just recently
   installed the plugin?
 * A lot is defendant on how your theme pulls posts from the WordPress engine. The
   Simply Exclude cannot filter all queries. It was designed to filter only four
   common queries within WordPress: is_home, is_archive, is_feed, is_search.
 * I see on your site in the left sidebar area the post ‘SPECIAL THANK YOU’s!’ What
   exactly is displayed there? Is that a widget? Which one?
 * In your wp-admin try going to the Simply Exclude settings screen. On the Taxonomies
   > Category section you should see an option for ‘Query Filtering’. IF this is
   set to ‘Main Loop Only’ try setting it to ‘All Loops’.
 *  Thread Starter [darkmatter661](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darkmatter661/)
 * (@darkmatter661)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-nothing-1/#post-4114874)
 * Thanks pmenard.
 * The widget on the left is just the WP Recent Posts widget, nothing special.
 * When I changed it to All Loops all other posts went away on the widget as well
   as the Latest News page. The only post that was showing was the one I was trying
   to hide…
 *  Plugin Author [Paul Menard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pmenard/)
 * (@pmenard)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-nothing-1/#post-4114876)
 * [@darkmatter661](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darkmatter661/),
 * > When I changed it to All Loops all other posts went away on the widget as well
   > as the Latest News page. The only post that was showing was the one I was trying
   > to hide…
 * Ok. On that same settings page just above the setting you just changed you will
   see a list of actions (see image [http://screencast.com/t/xrLiZ57tQSH](http://screencast.com/t/xrLiZ57tQSH))
 * The actions control including or excluding the selected category from the action.
   MY guess is for the action ‘Widget:Categories’ you have set to ‘include only’.
   This mean what is says. To include only the selected category and hide all others.
   Try setting it to ‘exclude’.
 *  Thread Starter [darkmatter661](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darkmatter661/)
 * (@darkmatter661)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-nothing-1/#post-4114880)
 * Thank you! Actually, it was Front/Home that was set to Include Only. When I changed
   the post in question was hidden from the front page widget, however all of my
   posts are no longer in the Latest News section (blog).

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 * Last reply from: [darkmatter661](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darkmatter661/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-nothing-1/#post-4114880)
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