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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Advanced Category Excluder] [Plugin: Advanced Category Excluder] Widget Exclusion](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advanced-category-excluder-widget-exclusion/)
 *  [pragmar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pragmar/)
 * (@pragmar)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advanced-category-excluder-widget-exclusion/#post-1561539)
 * I just hit this myself, you can hack the category widget to get around this. 
   Since the excluder is filtering WP_Query, you’ll need to remove the filters for
   the category query – here’s how.
 * **Find the query in cat-posts.php:**
 * `$cat_posts = new WP_Query("showposts=" . $instance["num"] . "&cat=" . $instance["
   cat"]);`
 * **Modify it to ignore filters:**
 * `$cat_posts = new WP_Query(array('showposts' => $instance["num"], 'post_status'
   => 'publish', 'cat'=>$instance["cat"], 'suppress_filters'=>1));`
 * As with all plugin hacks, beware that a plugin upgrade will remove the modification.

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