excluded categories in home.php but published posts are counted towards total

What are you using to exclude the categories in the Loop? get_posts or query_posts?

hi esmi, thanks for your quick response.

I’m using neither…

What I am using is
<?php if (in_category(array('7','13'))) continue; ?>

where cat 7 and 13 are the excluded ones…

In that case, that’s where the problem is. You’d be better of using query_posts to construct a custom query along the lines of:

<?php
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$args= array(
	'category__not_in' => array(7,13),
	'paged' => $paged
);
query_posts($args);
?>

cool, thanks i will try that and let you know how it goes

works brilliantly!

thanks a lot for the solution and the speed!

sorry esmi, i guess i celebrated too early.

as you can see on the site, it is not working at all as page navigation is completely broken now.

problems now are:
1) second page never shows up
2) post(s) of excluded category are
a) counted towards the total
b) showing up in the list

I remember I had this problem before and that is why I came up (after some search) with <?php if (in_category(array('7','13'))) continue; ?>

is there a solution that works?

That should work. It’s lifted straight from the relevant Codex page with the added fix in to handle paging. Are you using a page navigation plugin? I wonder if that is causing a problem?

yeah i’m using the famous PageNavi by Lester Chan, I will first disable that and try to get it working first without.

Loads of people have the same problem and all he does is referring to the codex: Template_Tags/query_posts

Could be an idea for him to write “The definite Tutorial on PageNavi”…

yeah sorry for that, all is working perfect.

I forgot to reset the query, so that messed it all up. Again sorry for that and thanks for the responses!