WordPress – Exclude a category from appearing in menu or sidebar widgets

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Is there a simple solution (e.g a plugin) for excluding categories appearing in a menu or sidebar?
I created a category of posts called “videos” which display youtube videos (naturally!!) but then i realized they were displaying in my “recent posts” sidebar, and i was looking for a simple way to exclude them

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

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  1. I found this code in WordPress forum which seems to do exactly what you need:

    <?php
  function exclude_widget_categories($args)
  {
    $exclude = "3,6,18"; // The IDs of the excluding categories
    $args["exclude"] = $exclude;
    return $args;
  }
  add_filter("widget_categories_args","exclude_widget_categories");
?>

    Put the code in functions.php of your theme.