Exclude category from get_posts?

Don’t believe you are going to get there with get_posts.

Consider using the template tag, query_posts(), instead.

Assuming the category you want to exclude is 8.

<?php
query_posts("cat=-8&showposts=10");
while (have_posts()) : the_post();
?>
...
?>
<?php endwhile; ?>

Perfect, thank you!

i have used similar code:

<?php 

if(!empty($_GET['paged']))

$paged = $_GET['paged'];

else $paged=4;

query_posts('order=ASC&cat=-403&paged='.$paged') ?>

but the order ASC or DESC don’t work. i visualized the post from most old. i want visualize the last post of all category excluse 403th from last post added.

i have also added &orderby=date but don’t work. if you are a solution write, thank you

For me get_posts() worked fine for a simple (non-paged) list. I just put a – before the category numbers I wanted to exclude, something like:

<?php
$postslist = get_posts(‘category=-39,-15&numberposts=-1&order=ASC&orderby=title’);

foreach ($postslist as $post) :
setup_postdata($post);
?>

• ” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to ‘<?php the_title(); ?>'”><?php the_title(); ?> (<?php the_date(); ?>)

<?php endforeach; ?>

My example lists all posts not in category 39 or in category 15, sorted by title.

To sort by date, most recent first, I use something like ‘category=-39,-15&orderby=date&order=DESC’.

Try that again:

<?php
$postslist = get_posts('category=-39,-15&numberposts=-1&order=ASC&orderby=title');
foreach ($postslist as $post) :
setup_postdata($post);
 ?>
 <ul>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to '<?php the_title(); ?>'"><?php the_title(); ?></a>  (<?php the_date(); ?>)</li>
</ul>
<?php endforeach; ?>