Sidebar help puhhh-lease :) ! Exclude categories.

Hi,

I want to be able to control which categories list on my sidebar. Can anyone help me out?

I found a couple links, below, on how to create a sidebar category list with excluded categories. I’m using the text widget and WP 2.8. does not work, I get no category list with this php, just blank. Am I doing something wrong?

I tried

<?php wp_list_categories('orderby=name&exclude=276&title_li='); ?>

and

<?php wp_list_categories('show_count=1&exclude=10&title_li=<h2>Categories</h2>'); ?>

Thanks!

Wolf

https://www.kimwoodbridge.com/how-to-exclude-a-category-from-the-sidebar-list-in-wordpress/

https://www.lancelhoff.com/exclude-categories-from-sidebar-in-wordpress-26/