I have created a new category ‘Idhar-Udhar’, But I don’t want to show posts related to this category on home page. I saw “Function Reference/query posts”. there is parameter category_name which displays posts from only one category by name. There is no parameter to exclude posts by category_name. I tried -(minus sign) in following way, but not worked.
query_posts(‘category_name=-Idhar-Udhar’);
I tried ! sign also, but no luck.
query_posts(‘category_name!=Idhar-Udhar’);
Finally, I have done this using category ID. See following:
$id = get_cat_id('Idhar-Udhar');
$q = "cat=-" . $id;
query_posts($q);
if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
First get ID using get_cat_id function then using cat parameter with -(minus sign) and category ID to exclude.
Hope, It helps
Thanks. Used a slight variation of this for querying posts outside the loop, and it worked!
Thanks alot its work for me……..very nice
Very helpful, thank you.
hurray, it works and it was easy! thanks for saving me from lots of stress :D :D
Great! I've been looking for this for a while noe. Thank you very much for posting.
But what if I want to limit the number of posts to be displayed in the “query_posts” line? how do i do it?