Title: Exclude category from loop problems
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Exclude category from loop problems

 *  [Moofin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moofin/)
 * (@moofin)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-category-from-loop-problems/)
 * Hello – hoping someone might be able to help here. I’ve searched google and I
   can’t find the solution to my problem.
 * I want to exclude a category from my homepage. I’ve got that working but the 
   problem is it’s ordering it wrong. I looked through the codex to find how to 
   order it but its just not working!
    `query_posts ($query_string.'&cat=-19&orderby
   =date&order=DESC');`
 * I think this is correct as when I remove “&cat=-19” I can order the page using
   DESC or ASC but as soon as I choose to exclude cat 19 it won’t work and puts 
   the old posts at the top.
 * I even tried a plugin called “Simply Exclude” but it still won’t order it correctly
   after I’ve excluded the category.
 * Anyone come across this problem – is it a WordPress bug?

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 *  [jkovis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkovis/)
 * (@jkovis)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-category-from-loop-problems/#post-2040386)
 * Have you tried printing out $wp_query to see what query parameters WordPress 
   is using?
 * Add something like the following to your code, save, and then view source.
 *     ```
       <?php query_posts ($query_string.'&cat=-19&orderby=date&order=DESC'); ?>
       <!-- wp_query = <?php print_r($wp_query); ?> -->
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Moofin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moofin/)
 * (@moofin)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-category-from-loop-problems/#post-2040561)
 * Hi Jkovis – thanks for taking the time to reply!
 * I tried your suggestion and this is what it sent out:
 *     ```
       [cat] => -19
                   [orderby] => wp_posts.post_date DESC
                   [order] => DESC
                   [error] =>
                   [m] => 0
                   [p] => 0
                   [post_parent] =>
                   [subpost] =>
                   [subpost_id] =>
                   [attachment] =>
                   [attachment_id] => 0
                   [name] =>
                   [static] =>
                   [pagename] =>
                   [page_id] => 0
                   [second] =>
                   [minute] =>
                   [hour] =>
                   [day] => 0
                   [monthnum] => 0
                   [year] => 0
                   [w] => 0
                   [category_name] =>
                   [tag] =>
                   [tag_id] =>
                   [author_name] =>
                   [feed] =>
                   [tb] =>
                   [paged] => 0
                   [comments_popup] =>
                   [meta_key] =>
                   [meta_value] =>
                   [preview] =>
                   [s] =>
                   [sentence] =>
                   [fields] =>
                   [category__in] => Array
       ```
   
 * There was more but this was the bulk of it. Interestingly enough when I uploaded
   it to a live server (I was working locally before) the order was working correctly.
   I’m still not sure why it doesn’t work locally as I see no reason for it to be
   any different.

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 * Last reply from: [Moofin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moofin/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-category-from-loop-problems/#post-2040561)
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