Exclude category from loop problems

  • Hello – hoping someone might be able to help here. I’ve searched google and I can’t find the solution to my problem.

    I want to exclude a category from my homepage. I’ve got that working but the problem is it’s ordering it wrong. I looked through the codex to find how to order it but its just not working!
    query_posts ($query_string.'&cat=-19&orderby=date&order=DESC');

    I think this is correct as when I remove “&cat=-19” I can order the page using DESC or ASC but as soon as I choose to exclude cat 19 it won’t work and puts the old posts at the top.

    I even tried a plugin called “Simply Exclude” but it still won’t order it correctly after I’ve excluded the category.

    Anyone come across this problem – is it a WordPress bug?

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  • Have you tried printing out $wp_query to see what query parameters WordPress is using?

    Add something like the following to your code, save, and then view source.

    <?php query_posts ($query_string.'&cat=-19&orderby=date&order=DESC'); ?>
<!-- wp_query = <?php print_r($wp_query); ?> -->

    Thread Starter Moofin

    (@moofin)

    Hi Jkovis – thanks for taking the time to reply!

    I tried your suggestion and this is what it sent out:

    [cat] => -19
            [orderby] => wp_posts.post_date DESC
            [order] => DESC
            [error] =>
            [m] => 0
            [p] => 0
            [post_parent] =>
            [subpost] =>
            [subpost_id] =>
            [attachment] =>
            [attachment_id] => 0
            [name] =>
            [static] =>
            [pagename] =>
            [page_id] => 0
            [second] =>
            [minute] =>
            [hour] =>
            [day] => 0
            [monthnum] => 0
            [year] => 0
            [w] => 0
            [category_name] =>
            [tag] =>
            [tag_id] =>
            [author_name] =>
            [feed] =>
            [tb] =>
            [paged] => 0
            [comments_popup] =>
            [meta_key] =>
            [meta_value] =>
            [preview] =>
            [s] =>
            [sentence] =>
            [fields] =>
            [category__in] => Array

    There was more but this was the bulk of it. Interestingly enough when I uploaded it to a live server (I was working locally before) the order was working correctly. I’m still not sure why it doesn’t work locally as I see no reason for it to be any different.

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