Question

I have a post list on my homepage that is displaying all posts in chronological order (DESC). I want to exclude posts from a specific category from this list. How do I go about this? My query is…

<ul class="home-news"><?php
                        $args = array( 'numberposts' => 5, 'order'=> 'DESC', 'orderby' => 'post_date' );
                        $postslist = get_posts( $args );
                        foreach ($postslist as $post) :  setup_postdata($post); ?> 
                            <li>
                            <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">
                                <?php the_title(); ?>
                                <span>Posted on <?php the_date(); ?></span>  
                            </a>
                            </li>
                        <?php endforeach; ?>
                    </ul>

Answer 1

Solution 1

Add the following to your args array:

$args = array( 'category' => '-id', ...);

Where id is the category id of the category you want to exclude. This solution will not diminish the number of posts requested.

Solution 2

Add the following at the beginning of the inside of the foreach loop:

<?php 
    $category = get_the_category();
    if ($category[0] -> cat_name == 'exclude_category_name') continue;
 ?>

Note that if posts have multiple categories, you’d want to loop through the $category array and check each element.