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Scott Reuber
Courses Plus Student 12,756 PointsDetermining Cat ID for Excluding 'Featured' from Recent Posts
Following along the Wordpress Theme lessons for a project I'm working on, and during the video where Zac is putting together the front-page.php file, for the Recent Post section it's stated that we want to exclude posts with a category of Featured. To do this, we go into the admin, go to Categories, click 'Featured', and then up in the address bar we see tag_ID=4.
From there, back in front-page.php, we add an argument to our $args array with a key of 'cat' and a value of -1.
This is confusing. Where does -1 come from? Wouldn't it be 4 (or rather, -4, to exclude it), as the tag_ID suggests? Feel like I'm missing something.
3 Answers
Christopher Geary
4,531 PointsHI Scott,
I can't find the video that your talking about, but my guess is the category Zac has created has an ID of 1, but yours has an ID of 4. You are correct saying that it should be cat="-4" to exclude this category.
You can see from the WordPress Codex, "Exclude Posts Belonging to Category"
:)
Scott Reuber
Courses Plus Student 12,756 PointsStill awaiting a response, preferably from Zac, on this one. This is still confusing.
Scott Reuber
Courses Plus Student 12,756 PointsScott Reuber
Courses Plus Student 12,756 PointsBack from Thanksgiving vacation, so time to update this.
The video I'm referring to is this one: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/how-to-build-a-wordpress-theme/extending-wordpress-template-functionality/adding-content-in-custom-places-part-2
Around the 6:30 mark is where he is creating this category omission. It's his category ID that is 4 when he views it in admin, not mine, but just moments later in that same video, the value for cat he enters in the array is -1. I was assuming it should have been -4 in the video.
This is confusing, not sure if it's an error in the video or what.