Excluding categories from RSS feed

To hit ?feed queries, place this in your blog’s root index.php (before the wp-blog-header.php include):

if(isset($_GET['feed'])) {
$cat=-1;
}

$cat needs to be assigned a negative value of the category ID to exclude. If instead you point to the various feed scripts (wp-rss2.php etc.), just add in each of them:

$cat=-1;

Thanks Kafkaesqui, should have thought of that myself:-)

For anyone else with the same issue, what you can also do is make an additional check on the ‘category_name’ get variable so that this category is not excluded from category feeds.

Translating ifelse’s note into geek:

if(isset($_GET['feed']) && !(isset($_GET['cat']) || isset($_GET['category_name']))) {
$cat=-1;
}

“Translating ifelse’s note into geek”
Thanks:-)