Exclude Category from Main Loop

category: Snippets

It comes a time where we want to have content (in a specific category) that will not be displayed in the main loop of our home page, our archives etc.

The only line you have to add is the one in line 1 of our example below.

query_posts($query_string . '&cat=-123'); //excludes micro blog category
//continue regular WP loop
if (have_posts()) :
while (have_posts()) : the_post();
display posts
endwhile:
else :
//show errors
endif;