Reply To: Count posts excluding certain categories

[poorpaddy]

Is there way to do this for a specific post type? Here’s what I am working with and trying to exclude categories,

<?php
$count_posts = wp_count_posts('sponsors');
$published_posts = $count_posts->publish;
$count = $published_posts/7;
$args = array(
'posts_per_page' => -1,
'post_type' => 'sponsors'
);
query_posts($args);
?>