Title: trouble excluding category
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# trouble excluding category

 *  [csleh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csleh/)
 * (@csleh)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trouble-excluding-category/)
 * I have been at this for hours and hours, trying different things. Basically, 
   there should be 3 posts on the home page: the most recent one in category A, 
   recent in category B, and a featured one that is either catA OR catB along with
   the category “featured”.
 * SO, I got it working by first calling a post in BOTH category A and featured.
   but the post is also showing up as the listing in category A. So I tried adding
   on to the second loop as here:
 *     ```
       <?php $posts = get_posts('category=A&numberposts=1&offset=0');
       foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
       <?php if (in_category('featured')) continue; ?>
       ```
   
 * but that skips the category entirely.
 * I’m at a loss. I was trying some variations of showing posts in columns where
   it wouldn’t repeat posts, but couldn’t get two different categories to work with
   that. Pointers greatly appreciated!

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 *  Thread Starter [csleh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csleh/)
 * (@csleh)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trouble-excluding-category/#post-982563)
 * OK, so I have something fudged. Using this:
 *     ```
       <?php query_posts(array('category__and' => array(15,31))); ?>
         <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
       <h6><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h6>
       <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
       <p class="readmore"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">Read full <?php the_title(); ?> story</a></p>
         <?php endwhile;?>
       <?php query_posts('cat=15&showposts=1&offset=1'); ?>
       <?php $posts = get_posts('category=15&numberposts=1&offset=1');
       foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
       <p class="readmore"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
       <?php endforeach; ?>
       <?php query_posts('cat=16&showposts=1'); ?>
       <?php $posts = get_posts('category=16&numberposts=1&offset=0');
       foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
       <p class="readmore"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
       <?php endforeach; ?>
       ```
   
 * But it only works if there is a single category along with featured. Categories
   15 and 16 are children of category 17, is there any way to have the first post
   be most recent post in 17, with 1 each of 15 and 16 shown below, but no duplicates?
 *  Thread Starter [csleh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csleh/)
 * (@csleh)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trouble-excluding-category/#post-982564)
 * oops, it posted twice

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 * [category](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/category/)
 * [multiple loops](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multiple-loops/)

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 * Last reply from: [csleh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csleh/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trouble-excluding-category/#post-982564)
 * Status: not resolved

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