Title: Recent Posts Plugin question
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Recent Posts Plugin question

 *  [khaled](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khaled/)
 * (@khaled)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-plugin-question/)
 * I’m using Scott’s Customizable Post Listings ( [http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/08/27/plugin-customizable-post-listings/](http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/08/27/plugin-customizable-post-listings/))
   plugin, but I can’t seem to get a specific function out of it. What I’m looking
   to do is make it **NOT** show a particular category. Anyone tried to do this,
   or is it not possible with this plugin (I’m pretty sure there has to be a work
   around as there is a way for show only one particular category).

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 *  [iand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iand/)
 * (@iand)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-plugin-question/#post-251988)
 * Either in the template tag or the fuction itself, enter all the category IDs 
   except the one(s) that you don’t want to use.
    i.e I have `$categories = '1 2
   4 5'` if you have five and want to exclude cat3.
 *  Thread Starter [khaled](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khaled/)
 * (@khaled)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-plugin-question/#post-251994)
 * I was actually hoping for a much simpler implementation, like -2 or something:).
   Oh well Thanks Ian.
 *  [iand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iand/)
 * (@iand)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-plugin-question/#post-251998)
 * I think the ‘-2’ type thing was on the to be done list, maybe it will be in the
   next release of the plugin.

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