wordpress – category__not_in not working

Issue

I’m having a problem getting my query function. I need to run the loop, excluding a particular category.

I’m trying to use category__not_in, but is not working at all some.

<?php
  $args = array(
    'post_type' => 'post',
    'post_status' => 'publish',
    'category__not_in' => array( '44' ),
    'posts_per_page' => 9,
    'paged' => get_query_var('paged')
  );
  $query = new WP_Query( $args );

  query_posts($query);
?>

I’ve already tried:

'category__not_in' => array( '44' ),
'category__not_in' => array( 44 ),
'category__not_in' => '44',
'category__not_in' => 44,

But nothing works =(

Solution

Thanks guys, it worked thanks to @rnevius

The problem was in my query, I was using WP_Query() and query_posts().

I used how reference the WP Codex: https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query

Below is how my code was at the end:

<?php
  $args = array(
    'post_type' => 'post',
    'post_status' => 'publish',
    'category__not_in' => array( 44 ),
    'posts_per_page' => 9,
    'paged' => get_query_var('paged')
  );
  $query = new WP_Query( $args );
?>

<?php
  if ( $query->have_posts() ) {
    while ( $query->have_posts() ) {
      $query->the_post();
?>

// code

<?php
    }
  } else {
    // no posts found
  }
  wp_reset_postdata();
?>

Answered By – Michel Makei Gefuni

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