How to Exclude a Category from the WordPress Loop

Here’s the question that was asked:

“Basically I want to take all of the posts in the “Freelance” category and remove them from the main content so that I can link to them from a page instead of including them in the Loop. ”

Here is the code to exclude an entire category from appearing within the WordPress loop:

<?php query_posts('cat=-3'); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<!-- Display the Title as a link to the Post's permalink. -->
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p>Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.</p>
<?php endif; ?>

Basically, what you’re doing with the above code is telling the loop that if it’s in category 3, just remove it from the query that the loop is using.

Hopefully you’ve found this quick tutorial valuable. Contact me if you have any questions or would do it a different way. There’s 1,001 ways to do everything – that’s why I love coding.

Great Grand Parent ID’s in WordPress

Have you ever needed to find all the ancestor ID’s of a page in WordPress? If so, you’ve come to the right place. Here’s some quick code to give you up to the great grand parent ID.

 $current = $post->ID;
$parent = $post->post_parent;
$get_grandparent = get_post($parent);
$grandparent = $get_grandparent->post_parent;
$get_greatgrandparent = get_post($grandparent);
$greatgrandparent = $get_greatgrandparent->post_parent; 
echo "parent = $parent; grandparent = $grandparent; greatgrandparent = $greatgrandparent";

If you wanted to, you could continue this pattern to N number of ancestors…

Hopefully you’ve found this quick tutorial valuable. Contact me if you have any questions or would do it a different way. There’s 1,001 ways to do everything – that’s why I love coding.