Title: WP Post Loop widget – excluding category posts
Last modified: January 9, 2018

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# WP Post Loop widget – excluding category posts

 *  Resolved [Maria-Elisa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maria-elisa-1/)
 * (@maria-elisa-1)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-post-loop-widget-excluding-category-posts/)
 * Hello to all,
 * I’m not an expert, so my question may be silly and I apologize in advance.
 * I use SiteOrigin North theme with SiteOrigin page builder on almost all pages.
 * My blog page is named “articles” but is not assigned as “blog page, it’s a page
   like any other one.
 * I use the default WP post loop widget in the Site Origine page builder to get
   my posts on the articles page.
 * At the moment, all articles are included in the widget loop.
 * I would like to exclude 3 categories.
 * I guess I have to write an additional query in the widget to exclude those categories
   but I am unable to do it.
 * Could someone give me the correct syntax of the query ? (with category slugs 
   as it seems there is no more category ID numbers)
 * Thank you very much in advance!
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fwp-post-loop-widget-excluding-category-posts%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-post-loop-widget-excluding-category-posts/#post-9848786)
 * Review this codex guide for some info:
    [https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Exclude_Posts_From_Some_Category](https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Exclude_Posts_From_Some_Category)
 * Also, review this plugin and see if it can do what you intend:
    [https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-category-excluder/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-category-excluder/)
 *  Thread Starter [Maria-Elisa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maria-elisa-1/)
 * (@maria-elisa-1)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-post-loop-widget-excluding-category-posts/#post-9849323)
 * Hi and thank you for your answer. Unfortunately this doesn’t help.
 * The first link to the codex indicates how to excude categories from a post page
   template. I have no post page. My post page named “articles” is an ordinary page
   that I have build with SiteOrigin Page Editor using widgets.
 * The second link is a plugin which doesn’t allow excluding categories for specific
   pages, only the front page, the feeds, the archives and the search templates.
 * For clarification, I have made an article on my blog with two screenshots.
    The
   first one shows the architecture of my page with Site Origin Page Builder and
   the page loop widget. The second one show the location inside the built-in post
   loop widget where I think I can write an exclude query. I just don’t know how
   to write it.
 * Here is the link to this article:
    [http://www.fcknfrdm.com/2018/01/10/presentation/query-excluding-categories-in-posts-loop-built-in-widget/](http://www.fcknfrdm.com/2018/01/10/presentation/query-excluding-categories-in-posts-loop-built-in-widget/)
 * Hope this helps.
 * Thank you!
 *  Thread Starter [Maria-Elisa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maria-elisa-1/)
 * (@maria-elisa-1)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-post-loop-widget-excluding-category-posts/#post-9851639)
 * Found it!
 * I thought the post loop widget I used was built in WP but it’s a theme built-
   in widget, so I found the answer in the theme support forum.
 * Thank you anyway for your answer.
 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-post-loop-widget-excluding-category-posts/#post-9851995)
 * You are welcome 🙂

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