Anneka

try regions in lower case. This fix is hardcoding the path which is why it isnt populating dropdown menus as I understand. Until plugin author fixes as he says it’ll be like this.

Want to add that, after reading WP time output codex I put this like this

esc_html( get_the_date( 'd,M,Y' ) ),

and this displayed as I wanted date, shortened month, full year. (8, Sep, 2014) but I can’t figure out how to style them individually.

Could someone give me an idea?

This code works for exclusion but it ignores posts_per_page=>
very weird.

<?php
    $exclude = get_cat_ID('featured');

    $args = array(
	'post-type' => 'post',
	'posts_per_page' => 3,
        'category__not_in' => $exclude
    );

    $non_featured = new WP_Query ( $args );
?>

To clarify:

1. I am retrieving “featured” category ID and assigning it to a variable.
$exclude = get_cat_ID('featured');

2. Then excluding that category variable.
`$nonfeat = ‘cat=-‘.$exclude;
`
3. Separately these variables work when I put in new WP_Query($here) but cant make both work together.

May be I am lacking proper syntax?

I’d like to integrate that exclusion variable into $args variable since new WP_Query() doesn’t seem to accept more then one variable.
And this is where I am stuck. I know I could exclude category by its ID but I need it to be by name.

Any help appreciated. TY.

Thanks for your reply, I had similar code except I have one more connecting variable in between. It didn’t work the first time, but I tried same code second time but renamed the second variable and it worked. I don’t know but possible that php was getting confused by $exclude and $exc ?

working code is like this:

$args = array( 'post-type' => 'post' );

  $exclude = get_cat_ID('featured');
  $nonfeat = 'cat=-'.$exclude;
  $non_featured = new WP_Query ( $nonfeat, $args);

ty

Thank you for the reply, appreciate it! also ty for the link