[Plugin: Genesis Featured Widget Amplified] Exclude post by ID not working

The Exclude Terms by ID lets you skip specific terms. For example, if you wanted to pull in posts by tag but skip a specific tag you could select All Tags from the list and put the tag ID in the exclude terms field. This will skip any posts that have been assigned that tag. The default taxonomy is Category, so if you have “All Terms and Taxonomies” selected then the exclude terms field is for categories.

The Post ID lets you skip specific posts.

The meta key is used in the query to search for specific metakeys (custom field names). It can be used with the sorting options, so if you want to sort your posts into a specific order you can assign them a custom field “order” and assign a number to the field to sort them. Then select to sort (orderby) the posts by numeric metakey.

As for the exclude not working. Are these sticky posts?

Thanks for the descriptions on the details of how the plugin works.

As for the post IDs not working, no the posts are not sticky. I’m using the post ID found in the url when editing the post. Is that the correct one?

Sorry for the delay on this. I had to go through several tests to figure out why the exclude isn’t working, turns out that it is as simple as a space after post__not_in.

This will be fixed in the 0.7 update, which I hope to have out next week, but you can apply the patch pretty easily. Search for “post__not_in” in the widget.php file and remove the space after the arg.

$term_args['post__not_in '] = $IDs;

becomes

$term_args['post__not_in'] = $IDs;

ah that fix worked perfectly. thanks for taking the time to pin down what the cause was. i hate when it’s something so simple yet you just can’t seem to find.

thanks again!

You’re welcome. Sorry it took a while to find.

Argh, struggled with this for 2 hours before I saw this. Oh well, at least its documented here.

thanks for the fix. nice and easy!