Title: [Plugin: Display Posts Shortcode] Exclude a Category
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Display Posts Shortcode] Exclude a Category

 *  Resolved [cinderalla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cinderalla/)
 * (@cinderalla)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-display-posts-shortcode-exclude-a-category/)
 * Is it possible to exclude a category? I’ve tried the following with no success:
    - [display-posts category=”-testing”]
    - [display-posts category=”-2″]
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/)

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 *  Thread Starter [cinderalla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cinderalla/)
 * (@cinderalla)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-display-posts-shortcode-exclude-a-category/#post-2817804)
 * see [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-display-posts-shortcode-how-do-you-exclude-a-category-from-the-posts](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-display-posts-shortcode-how-do-you-exclude-a-category-from-the-posts)

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 * Last reply from: [cinderalla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cinderalla/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-display-posts-shortcode-exclude-a-category/#post-2817804)
 * Status: resolved