Title: PHP – exclude by category description
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# PHP – exclude by category description

 *  Resolved [JackDavis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackdavis-1/)
 * (@jackdavis-1)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-exclude-by-category-description/)
 * Hi, this is my footer. There is parade of categories with most articles in. I
   need to exclude here categories with description that starts with “XXX”.
    So 
   If some categories have description that starts with “XXX”, it may don´t show
   here.
 * Is it possible please? Im newbie in PHP so I dont know if can I declare category
   discreption here.
 *     ```
       <?php global $teo_options;?>
       <footer role="contentinfo">
   
       <?php if(isset($teo_options['enable_popular_companies']) && $teo_options['enable_popular_companies'] == 1) { ?>
               <div class="stripe-regular">
                   <div class="row">
                       <div class="column">
                           <h2><?php _e('Name', 'Couponize');?></h2>
                       </div>
                   </div>
                   <div class="row collapse">
                       <div class="column">
                           <div class="popular-companies flexslider">
                               <ul class="rr slides">
                                   <?php
                                   $args['hide_empty'] = 1;
                                   $args['orderby'] = 'count';
                                   $args['order'] = 'desc';
                                   if(isset($teo_options['blog_category']) && $teo_options['blog_category'] != '')
                                       $args['exclude'] = implode(",", $teo_options['blog_category']);
                                   $categories = get_categories($args);
                                   foreach($categories as $category) {
                                       $image = get_option('taxonomy_' . $category->cat_ID);
                                       $image = $image['custom_term_meta'];
                                   ?>
                                       <li>
                                           <a href="<?php echo get_category_link( $category->term_id );?>" class="wrapper-5 small">
                                               <img src="<?php echo aq_resize($image, 130, 130, true); ?>" alt="<?php echo $category->name;?> coupons">
                                           </a>
                                       </li>
                                   <?php } ?>
                               </ul>
                           </div>
                       </div>
                   </div>
               </div>
           <?php } ?>
       ```
   

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