wordpress - category__not_in not working

Question

I\'m having a problem getting my query function. I need to run the loop, excluding a particular category.

I\'m trying to use category__not_in, but is no

Answer 1

Use 'cat' => '-44' in your $args array:

$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'post',
    'post_status' => 'publish',
    'cat' => '-44',
    'posts_per_page' => 9,
    'paged' => get_query_var('paged')
);

It's the way recommended in the WP Codex.