How To Exclude Category In Wordpress Feed

Using this blog as an example, I’ll quickly show you how I prevent any post in a specific category from appearing in your Wordpress feed.

Knowing the ID of the category you don’t want to show - I remove my Twitter posts which are in category 31 - we append the exclusion code:

http://your-blog.com/index.php?feed=rss2&cat=-31

Note the original Wordpress feed structure. Even if you use ‘pretty permalinks’ for your feed - ie. *.com/feed - this will still work.

According to Nicole at Beyond Caffeine, if you want more than one category to be excluded you can keep adding the code:

http://your-blog.com/index.php?feed=rss2&cat=-18&cat=-22

However, a more traditional PHP structure may also work:¹

http://your-blog.com/index.php?feed=rss2&cat=-18,-22

1. If you use ‘pretty permalinks’ in Wordpress, this format still works. [↩]

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