Title: [Plugin: Kinderlose] Problems with regex
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Kinderlose] Problems with regex

 *  [csoul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csoul/)
 * (@csoul)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-kinderlose-problems-with-regex/)
 * I’ve been using Kinderlose to hide child category posts on category list pages,
   and I love its functionality – or I did until I started writing a sidebar for
   my site that uses get_posts to pull all the child categories of a completely 
   different category and list them by category. The regex in Kinderlose ate the
   query for the sidebar and spit out something completely different.
 * I need some help figuring out how to make the Kinderlose plugin rework the query
   for the main loop category, and ignore the sidebar query. Here’s the relevant
   code:
 * Sidebar:
 *     ```
       <?php $parent_category = '26';
       	$categories = get_categories("orderby=id&hide_empty=1&child_of=$parent_category");
              	foreach($categories as $cate) : ?>
             		<h3><?php echo $cate->name; ?></h3>
                       <?php $cid = $cate->cat_ID; ?>
               	<ul>
                  	<?php global $post;
                             $sidebarPosts = get_posts('numberposts=-1&category='.$cid);
       		      foreach($sidebarPosts as $post) : setup_postdata($post); ?>
                  			<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
                  	      <?php endforeach; ?>
   
               	</ul>
         	<?php endforeach; ?>
       ```
   
 * This is working great on every page except the category pages – when it appears
   on the `?cat=12` page, for example, it pulls the correct category headers for
   the sidebar, but every category post on the sidebar is from category 12.
 * I can see why it works this way, why it only happens on category pages, and how
   it hooks into the get_posts query from the code; what I can’t figure out is, 
   how do I limit it to grab the parent category for the page, and only affect queries
   based on that category ID, while ignoring my sidebar query?
 * Thanks in advance,
 * cSoul

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