Title: Exclude or include categories
Last modified: February 15, 2017

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# Exclude or include categories

 *  [psn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psn/)
 * (@psn)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-or-include-categories/)
 * Hi,
 * I have used your plugin several years and we have this widget placed on 2 separate
   sidebars with 2 different settings, ie on sidebar 1 we include category ID 1,
   2, 3 and on sidebar 2 we include category ID 4 and 5. This has been working but
   now (I think after either WP latest release or your latest plugin release) its
   not working as sidebar 2 is empty only heading is showing. But if we put in category_slug_name
   instead of ID for widget in sidebar 2 then its working so it seems the widget
   can’t operate with same kind of setting ie ID on both. Just wan’t to highlight
   this if anyone has seen same issue and above is a temp solution for this without
   any coding, just set different setting for include or exclude and voila its working
   again.

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 *  [papijo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/papijo/)
 * (@papijo)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-or-include-categories/#post-9344594)
 * Using WP Version 4.8 and Collapsing Archives version 2.0.8 I confirm that the“
   Exclude or Include categories” feature only works with slugs, not IDs.

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-or-include-categories/#post-9344594)
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