Page with Posts Templet – selecting the categories to be excluded.

[Skippy]

Can y’all explain what I’m missing here…

The page I’m working on is: http://hesaidshesaidfortcollins.com/ask-us-fort-collins-archive/

The categories for this site are:

he-said
she-said
ask-us-fort-collins-archive (all following categoris are sub-categories of this one)
advice-for-your-life
announcements
family
he-says
lessons-learned-the-hard-way
money
neighbors
question-of-the-week
reader-confessions
relationships
robyns-rant
sex
she-says
shit-skippy-says
social-situations
unsolicited-advice
work

Thus there are 3 top level categories.

On this page I want to display only posts which are in ask-us-fort-collins-archive, except for announcements.  I also want to exclude he-said and she-said categories.

I go to Settings for “Page with Posts” Template and in the category I put in “-announcements”.  That turns up the most recent 15 posts, including test posts in the he-said and she-said categories.  As I would expect.

Then if I change the setting in category to “-announcements -he-said -she-said” I get a message telling me that no posts are found.  All the categories are populated.

Am I going about this wrong?  Thanks.

[scrambler]

I believe you need comas between the various slugs

-announcements, -he-said, -she-said

[Skippy]

Ah….  duh.

I’d have felt much dumber if it said that in the discription right there by the box.  Since that information isn’t there I only feel slightly stupid.

Thanks Scrambler.

[Weaver]

I added a note about commas in that section – not by each item, but at the top:

Use commas to separate items in lists.

Might help otheres. Thanks for the suggestion!

[Skippy]

You are welcome.  Thank you.

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