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Hi, I am trying to filter entries based on an entries parent category id.

Here is my code:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="business_listings" status="Featured" orderby="random" category="not 15"}

Here are my categories:
Restaurants - id: 15
->Italian - id: 22 (child of restaurants)
->American - id: 23 (child of restaurants)
etc..

so I don’t see any entries with category - id:15 but I do see entries with category id: 22
How can I do this without hard-coding the child ids into the category list?
I know the parent category (id = 15) will never change but child categories will be added on the fly and I don’t want to have to go in and change the code every time a new child category is added.

So something like this is what I am looking for:
parent_category=“not 15”

Thanks

I had the same problem as you, and ended up writing a quick plugin to do just this. You can find it at: http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/129357/