Kaptinlin Themes Support

Hi Brian

In the Striking Blog General Panel, under the Blog General Settings, you will find a setting for Exclude Categories for Blog Page. You can exclude a category here, and let me know what the effect is to your usage.

However, you should not need to do this. I just did a test where I have 3 categories:
Technology, Information, News and a total of 6 posts (I attached the Post summary page #1 Blog Post Summary Page so you would see).

I created a new page and posted in the following code:

[blog column="2" grid="true" frame="false" count="10" imageType="default" nopaging="false"]

which would result in all posts being displayed, as I neither included or excluded any posts. The #2 screenshot shows the code. Since there are 6 blog posts in total, I expected all 6 to display, and they did per Screenshot #3 - Display All Posts Output.

Now if you look at the screenshots, I have one post "Pertinacia scriptorem proinc" that is in the News category and I will exclude it. So Screenshot#4A is of the blog shortcode where I have excluded the news category (which is category id 4), but included the other 2 categories. And 4b is the actual code appearing in the editor. This should result in the one News blog post being excluded, even though it is assigned to multiple categories. So instead of 6 posts appearing, I should only find 5 appearing. As you can see the blog shortcode to cause the exclusion outputs the following code to the editor:

[blog column="2" grid="true" blog cat="5,6" category__not_in="4" frame="false" count="10" imageType="default" nopaging="false"]

Acreenshot #5 is the live page, and as you can see, the output worked correctly, as the one News related blog post was excluded. Only 5 posts showed up.

BTW, I tried your shortcode exactly as per how you posted, except I changed the "Count" to 10 instead of the default 3, and substituted my category numbers in place of yours, so my code was as follows:

[blog frame="false" cat="5,6" category__not_in="4" count="10" imageType="default"]

and I attached both images, marked #6 and #7, and you can see it worked again.

So my answer is I don't know why this problem is occurring in your use of the shortcode. I believe you are up to date in both your Striking and your WP from what I recall in past threads. So you should not be having this error, unless something is interfering in the blog shortcode output.

Its actually been some time since we even had a blog question, and I don't recall the last time we had a blog error.

I took a look at our pm's, and while I have your skype (and have sent you skype messages) I don't believe I have your logins. If you would like me to log in this weekend and look around, together with you on skype, I am happy to do such.

Happy Striking
Striking Team
James