BDC Software » Uncategorized http://www.bdcsoftware.com Experience Matters Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:01:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 WordPress 3.1.1 Exclude Categories Issue http://www.bdcsoftware.com/wordpress-3-1-1-exclude-categories-issue/ http://www.bdcsoftware.com/wordpress-3-1-1-exclude-categories-issue/#comments Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:12:38 +0000 raf http://www.bdcsoftware.com/?p=583 I have run into an interesting issues after upgrading to WP 3.1.1. It seems something has broken the query_posts() functions ability to process the ‘cat’ parameter. Usual calls to:

query_posts("cat=1");
or to:
query_posts("cat=-1"); //exclude category 1

stopped working. It is interesting that only the ‘cat’ parameter is broken. The Hotfix plugin promises to address the issue, however in my instance it did not solve the problem.

It turns out that the issue is not in parse_str() and ‘category__not_in’ DOES work correctly . So quick workaround for this issue can be accomplished as follows:


global $query_string;
parse_str( $query_string, $args );
$args['category__not_in'] = array( 7,8 );
query_posts( $args );

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