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esquivelia

I believe I would have to ad or change something (probably in the array) in this bit of code?

if($my_post_type == CUSTOM_POST_TYPE1){
        $my_post_cat = 'placecategory';
      }else{
        $my_post_cat = 'eventcategory';
      }

      $args=array($my_post_cat => $category,
          'post_type' => $my_post_type,
          'posts_per_page' => $number,
          'ignore_sticky_posts'=> 1);
      $my_query = null;
      $my_query = new WP_Query($args);

      if( $my_query->have_posts() ) { ?>
      <div id="loop" class="list clear">
      <?php if($title){ ?> ........

mcjohnst

is the "placecategory" and "eventcategory" the slug names for your categories?

If so try replacing

$my_post_cat => $category

With

'category_name' => $my_post_cat

benpearson

Hi esquivelia,

If you want to exclude a category from the loop you would use something like the following instead

'cat' => -13

Where 13 is the category id.

To get the category id from the category slug do something like this

<?php 
    $catObj = get_category_by_slug($my_post_cat); 
    $catID = $catObj->term_id;
  ?>

So then the parameter for WP_Query would become:

'cat' => $catID

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