Title: Exclude Category From Loop
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Exclude Category From Loop

 *  Resolved [kevinjb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinjb/)
 * (@kevinjb)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-category-from-loop/)
 * Hello, the loop in my home.php file looks like:
    `<? if ( have_posts() ) : while(
   have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?> ... <? endwhile; endif;
 * What I want to do is exclude all posts in a certain category (say with an ID 
   of 3) from that loop – how do I do this?

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-category-from-loop/#post-496902)
 * From [The_Loop](http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop) page, check out this section:
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Exclude_Posts_From_Some_Category](http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Exclude_Posts_From_Some_Category)
 *  Thread Starter [kevinjb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinjb/)
 * (@kevinjb)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-category-from-loop/#post-496908)
 * Dang, I thought I’d read through that already!
 * Thanks for putting up with such a dumb question 😛
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-category-from-loop/#post-496910)
 * No dumb questions, but I’ve let loose some dumb answers. 🙂
 * Happy blogging.

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