List all posts except 2 categories, how?

Need a little more detail. Is ‘latest episodes’ just newest posts, or a category?

If it is latest posts, this should work:

<?php
$excluded_cats = array( 44, 55 );  // ids to exclude
$args = array(
   'caller_get_posts' => 1,  // Don't show stickies at top
   'posts_per_page' => 5,    // The number of latest to show
   'category__not_in' => $excluded_cats,
);
query_posts($args);

@vtxyzzy

‘Latest Episodes’ is every post I make which is not located in the ‘uncategorized’ and the ‘News & Updates’ category. So they’re posts from several different categories.

Also I need to list only the post name with an URL to the post as I will use it in a sidebar widget.

The code I showed should select the 5 newest posts which are not in categories 44 or 55. You can follow that code with ‘standard’ loop code to display whatever you want from those posts.

Do you need a more specific example on the loop?

I got it to work, thanks for helping.

You are welcome!