Exclude Multiple Categories From Blog

Actually the issue from above happens when I use the following code:

ISSUE:
“it excludes both the categories, but when i go to /blog/ the first page is blank, i navigate to the next page of posts and there’s only one post, then i navigate to the 3rd page and i see 3 posts in a row which is what it should be on all the pages. any idea why it’s doing that? “

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php if (in_category('4723')) continue; ?>
<?php if (in_category('1618')) continue; ?>
<!--BlogStuff-->
<?php endwhile; ?>

The SECOND ISSUE I GET:
It excludes the categories properly, but when I navigate to older posts it just keeps showing the same 3 posts over and over no matter how far back I go.

While using this code:

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php query_posts('cat=-4723,-1618'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<!--BlogStuff-->
<?php endwhile; ?>

I tried making a parent category called ‘Blog’, and putting all my previous blogging categories as child categories under the ‘Blog’ parent category.

Then I tried to query the ‘Blog’ category displaying 3 posts per page…

Same problem persists.

It shows the last three posts over and over, no matter what page of posts I navigate to.

I’m having exactly the same problem and can not work out why it’s doing it. :/

Anyone help?

Still haven’t figured it out. Will be digging deeper to solve this issue.

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

<?php static $count = 0;
if ($count == "N") { break; }
else { ?>

<?php if ( in_category('X') && !is_single() ) continue; ?>
<?php if ( in_category('Y') && !is_single() ) continue; ?>

<div class="post">
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>

<?php $count++; } ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

The above code doesn’t work either! I don’t know what to do!

Not sure how you have things setup and what theme your are using…

To exclude those categories on a blog’s index.php, using the WordPress Default theme for example, in the wp-content/themes/default/index.php file, just before the line:
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

put this:

<?php query_posts($query_string . '&cat=-4723,-1618'); ?>

The query_posts() article explains the arguments in detail.

Thank you so much! It worked perfectly. <3

Where were you two weeks ago? ??

Hello guys

The problem excluding cat′s with <?php query_posts($query_string . '&cat=-4723,-1618'); ?> is when you want use the $query_string coming from another page with, i.e., cat=6. In this cases, you are defining twice the cat variable inside the query_posts() function and the result is a query for the last definition.

I recommend, for this cases, something as:

<?php $myCats = array(12,27,31); // Excluded Categories
      query_posts($query_string); // Requested variables
      if(have_posts()) :while (have_posts()) : the_post();
      if(in_category($myCats)) continue;
?>