How Can You Exclude Categories From Your RSS Feeds?

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1. It’s been broken since 3.1, see:
   http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16622
   and also
   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-31-breaks-rss-customization-via-exclude_category
   NOTE: Otto’s suggested fix in that thread doesn’t work for me.

   Ticket suggests patch will go in for 3.1.1 and i can confirm that currently filters on pre_get_posts or parse_query fail for feeds(unfortunately).

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2. Not too confident to get hooks right from memory… I think hooking into pre_get_posts and setting category__not_in to what you want to skip on is_feed() conditional should work.

   But might require playing with different hooks earlier/later, querying internals are confusing around there.

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3. function wpsites_exclude_category_rss_feed($query) {
    if ($query->is_feed) {
      $query->set('cat','-007,-008');
    }
   return $query;
   }
   add_filter('pre_get_posts','wpsites_exclude_category_rss_feed');
   

   Either of these snippets in your functions file will work using pre_get_posts

   function wpsites_exclude_category_rss_feed($query) {
   if ( $query->is_feed) {
       $query-> set('category__not_in',array(007));
       }
   return $query;
   }
   add_filter('pre_get_posts','wpsites_exclude_category_rss_feed');
   

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