Title: Exclude specific post from Recent Post widget
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Exclude specific post from Recent Post widget

 *  [ganghiss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ganghiss/)
 * (@ganghiss)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-specific-post-from-recent-post-widget/)
 * I’m trying to remove a specific post, using post ID, from displaying in the default
   Recent Posts widget. Is there an exclude instance or agument to use? Also, not
   sure I’m calling the_widget and wp_widget_recent_posts correctly. Below is my
   screwy attempt in functions.php.
 *     ```
       function custom_recent_post_exclude($data) {
       	$data = array(
       	'widget' => wp_widget_recent_posts,
       	'instance' => 'exclude=45'
       	);
       	return $data;
       }
       add_filter( 'the_widget', 'custom_recent_post_exclude', 999 );
       ```
   

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 * [widget](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widget/)

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-specific-post-from-recent-post-widget/)
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