Exclude Category in Recent Posts Widget

  • Resolved Moodles

    (@moodles)


    15 years ago

    I am creating a Widget for my sidebar that lists recent posts, but want to exclude one category. I am using the “Executable PHP widget” plugin.

    I have been trying to use the function
    category__not_in
    Yes I have both the underlines after category. It is working but is INcluding ONLY that category… opposite of what the function should be doing. ???

    Based on this thread, https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/272893
    I tried setting the values as an array (I am still a PHP beginner), same result. The correct number of posts are displayed, just the category is not excluded. 

    <div class="listWidget"><ul>
<?php
$noCat= array (
  'post_type' => post,
  'category__not_in' => news,
  'showpost' => 5
  );
$posts=get_posts('$noCat');
if ($posts) {
foreach($posts as $post) {
setup_postdata($post);
?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>

<?php }
}
?></ul></div>

    Am I doing something wrong in my code? Maybe the code doesn’t work correctly in the widget? Other? Thanks for any help.

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    Here’s another example

    <?php
$cat_id = get_cat_ID('news');
$args=array(
  'category__not_in' => array($cat_id),
  'post_type' => 'post',
  'post_status' => 'publish',
  'posts_per_page' => 5,
  'caller_get_posts'=> 1
);
$my_query = null;
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
  echo 'List of Posts';
  while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
    <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
    <?php
  endwhile;
}
wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
?>

    Thread Starter Moodles

    (@moodles)

    OK thank you so much, MichaelH. That worked. To tweak it to look like my other widgets, this is what I used in the PHP widget:

    <div class="listWidget"><ul><?php
$cat_id = get_cat_ID('news');
$args=array(
  'category__not_in' => array($cat_id),
  'post_type' => 'post',
  'post_status' => 'publish',
  'posts_per_page' => 5,
  'caller_get_posts'=> 1
);
$my_query = null;
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
  while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
    <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
    <?php
  endwhile;
}
wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
?></ul></div>
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