luke.faragher

Solved it for anyone else who might find this useful…

//This is the query that gets the blocked Post IDs

		$things = array();
		$results = $wpdb->get_results( "SELECT sid FROM wp_entries WHERE uid = '$current_user->ID'");
		foreach( $results as $result )
		$things[] = $result->sid;

//This is the query that blocks the posts

   $args = array('cat' => 8, 'showposts' => 3, 'post__not_in' => $things );
   $category_posts = new WP_Query($args);

   if($category_posts->have_posts()) :
      while($category_posts->have_posts()) :
         $category_posts->the_post();