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Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2012 5:28 pm**

Hello,
I'm trying to exclude some categories from my news menu.
I've 'really' searched the forums but haven't found a way of doing it.

Eventually, I came up with this...

General .....(exclude)
Products ....(exclude)
.....sub_cat_a
.....sub_cat_b

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{news action="browsecat" browsecattemplate="mycats" summarytemplate="newslist"}

Category template = mycats

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{if $count > 0}
{foreach from=$cats item=node}

{if $node.news_category_name != 'General' && $node.news_category_name != 'Products'}
<a href="{$node.url}">{$node.news_category_name}</a><br>
{/if}

{/foreach}
{/if}

summarytemplate newslist

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<ul>
{foreach from=$items item=entry}
 <li><a href="{$entry->moreurl}" title="{$entry->title|cms_escape:htmlall}">{$entry->title|cms_escape}</a></li>
{/foreach}
</ul>

This appears to work but in my opinion - it's very messy (and probably not the best way to do it).

I would really appreciate if someone could point me at a 'better' (or more correct) way.

(I am not a programmer.)

Thanks

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2012 6:58 pm**

Well other than the option you suggested there are four alternatives:

Use the category parameter to select each specific category you want shown
Use CGBlog instead and use its notcategory parameter to hide the categories you don't want shown
Go to the module forge and request this feature to be added to the News module
Pay/ask someone to modify the News module to get this feature (obviously this would be the least beneficial as soon as the module got updated)

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2012 7:07 pm**

Thank you mrenigma

I'll take a look at CGBlog.

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