How to exclude parent category from listing posts in sidebar

  • Do you know how to exclude parent category from listing the posts?

    I will provide an example: On this page https://firm-guide.com/2013/official-shots-of-the-new-mercedes-benz-cla-revealed/ in the sidebar there are recent posts from category “cars”, but I want to display only posts from category “Mercedes-Benz” (which is a child category and “cars” is parent category).

    Currently I am using following code:

    <?php
$cat = get_the_category();
$cat = $cat[0];
$posts = get_posts("category=" . $cat->cat_ID . "&numberposts=5");
if( $posts ) :
?>

<h3 class="widget-title">More on this category</h3>
<?php foreach( $posts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail('medium'); ?></a> <br>
<div class="sidebar-product-meta">
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><br>
<span style="font-size:10px;">Date posted: <?php the_date(); ?></span>
</div>
<?php endforeach; ?>

    Can somebody help me exclude the “cars” category so that only Mercedes-Benz posts are shown as related?

    Thank you

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  • get_posts accepts an exclude parameter, for example, if Mercendes-Benz had a category of id 20

    $cat = get_the_category();
$cat = $cat[0];
$posts = get_posts("category=" . $cat->cat_ID . "&numberposts=5&exclude=20");

    Thread Starter External11

    (@external11)

    Hi Andrew, thank you but I need to replace the number with a variable. I have a lot of categories…

    External, sorry I didn’t back to this earlier, let me play around with it on our dev server.

    Ok, your $cat object will include a parent value, so you can exclude off of that. For example:

    $cat = get_the_category();
$cat = $cat[0];
$posts = get_posts("category=" . $cat->cat_ID . "&numberposts=5&exclude=".$cat->parent);

    Thread Starter External11

    (@external11)

    Hi Andrew,
    I’ve modified the template, however the result is the same yet…
    Have you tested it?
    Thank you

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