Category excluded on profile page

Howdy!

Thank you for making a great user manager plugin.

I’ve run into a problem though. I?am successfully using this functions.php snippet to exclude category 3 from the WordPress homepage:

function exclude_category_home( $query ) {
if ( $query->is_front_page ) {
$query->set( 'cat', '-3' );
}
return $query;
}
add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category_home' );

Your query for listing the users posts works fine:

$the_query = wpum_get_posts_for_profile( $data->user->ID );

But a query of my own, running on a tab I added on the profile page, unintentionally excludes category 3:

$the_query = new WP_Query( array( 'meta_key' => 'fetcher', 'meta_value' => $user_ID ) );

I can’t find out if it’s my query or your plugin that causes this problem. Can you? ??