Wordpress Pros! Need some advice ASAP!!

I'm about to launch a blog but need some help to tweak a small section of the blog.

Problem:
I have a recent post section on my sidebar, I want to omit a certain category post from being included as a "recent post", not sure how to do that.

I don't know php that much, so will need some advice....please IM on AIM @

d3ncha

Thanks

 

You should be able to exclude that category ID from the recent posts call. I am not sure how you have it set up (plugin/widget) but you can add in a parameter to exclude cat ID=XX.

Are you using a plugin?

 

no im not using a plugin for the "recent comments" in the sidebar, let me take a look at excluding the cat id from there.

Could this also be done on the main template? don't what a certain cat post to show up there also...

 

what is the php code to exclude a certain cat id?

I believe this is the php that calls for the recent post section (correct me if I'm wrong)

<?php
}

function widget_recent_entries($args) {
	extract($args);
	$title = __('Recent Posts', 'widgets');
	$r = new WP_Query('showposts=10');
	if ($r->have_posts()) :
?>

PHP:

 

Try this:

<?php
}

function widget_recent_entries($args) {
    extract($args);
    $title = __('Recent Posts', 'widgets');
    $r = new WP_Query('showposts=10&exclude=[COLOR="Red"]XX[/COLOR]');
    if ($r->have_posts()) :
?>

Code (markup):

Where XX is the category ID you want to exclude. Disclaimer- I am not an expert but I think this may work.

 

nope that didn't work

 

problem solved....thanks anyway