Help needed with query

Hmmm… this is a good one!!

Let’s try something like this:

<?php
$args=array(
  'category' => $ps_catid,  // Taken from your example above
  'category__not_in' => '46',  // Taken from your example above
  'post_type' => 'post',
  'post_status' => 'publish',
  'posts_per_page' => 10
);
$my_query = null;
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
  while ($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().
?>

No promises as to it working at this point ??

These two lines:

'category' => $ps_catid,  // Taken from your example above
'category__not_in' => '46',  // Taken from your example above

… should tell it; Get all posts from current category… but exclude the ones that are also in category ID 46.

Thanks Josh,

I’ve put your code in and it works!! However, there seems to be a slight problem.

I removed the argument line that states ’10 posts per page’ as my wordpress settings has it currently showing just 3 which is fine as i’m building the site on my testing server. There are only 2 posts which meet the arguments criteria (ie. in the current category and not in 46), and although these are now the only ones that are showing, the next_post_link is displaying and linking to a page 2 which again shows the same 2 posts!?

This is strange as there shouldn’t be a page 2 because there are only 2 posts meeting the argument and the settings are set to 3 posts per page. Do you know why it would duplicate the same posts and put them on a second page?

Thanks. The full code is as follows…

<?php
$args=array(
  'category__in' => $ps_catid,  // Taken from your example above
  'category__not_in' => '46'  // Taken from your example above
);
$my_query = null;
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
  while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>

                                <div class="trends_panel">

                                            <div class="trends_header">

                                                    <div class="trends_date">
                                                    	<?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?>
                                                    </div>

                                                                <div class="trends_title">

                                                                    <h1><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?>
                                           								</a>
                                                                    </h1>

                                                                </div>

                                                                			<?php $image = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'category image', true);

																		   if($image) : ?>

																		   <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
                                                                           	<img src="<?php echo $image; ?>" border="0" class="resize" />
																		   </a>

																		   <?php endif; ?>

                                                                                    <div class="trends_excerpt">
                                                                                        <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
                                                                                    </div>

                                                                                            <div class="trends_more">
                                                                                            <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>">Read More
                                                                                            </a>
                                                                                            </div>
                                            </div>

                                </div>

                																	<?php
  endwhile;
}
wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
?>

                                                                                 <div class="clear">
                   															     </div>   			

                            <?php previous_posts_link('&laquo; More Recent Posts') ?>

                                <?php next_posts_link('Older Posts &raquo;') ?>

Just realised that i should have been using the <?php posts_nav_link(); ?> rather than the next_post_link given that this is a category page. Unfortunately though the problem still persists. It’s still creating a page 2 showing the same 2 posts.

Sorry, I got sidetracked.

What’s the url where you are using this?

(If you don’t want to post it here, I’ll provide you a link to my contact form.)

The site isn’t live yet as i’m currently building it on my testing server using mamp.

I’ve not come across this problem before and have tried various things but can’t seem to solve the problem. Very strange.

Ok so i have used the following code that i found on the forum from a similar post which works. here it is..

<?php query_posts( array( 'category__not_in' => array(46), 'category_name' => 'nike', 'paged' => $paged, 'orderby' => 'title' ) );?>

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

The only thing that needs changing is the category name. At the moment i put in a random category to test it, in this case ‘nike’, which works fine, but the page will need to show different posts according to what category was clicked on.

I tried to put in my global parameter of $ps_catid or $ps_catname but it doesn’t work. It just seems to show all posts from several categories.

Anyone able to help?

Working!!!!

For anyone that might stumble upon this problem in the future, i finally got it to work. Here is the code…

<?php query_posts( array( 'category__not_in' => array(46), 'category__in' => array($ps_catid), 'paged' => $paged ) );?>