Exclude blog category posts from slideshow

I’m trying to do this myself, I can’t get it to work, Maaatt what did you do to get it to work?

Is there a code that can query what code(s) to INCLUDE not exclude?

For those who don’t want to get a plugin, here’s the code change:

in loop-slider.php, look for this code:

$args = array(
'posts_per_page' => 4,
'paged' => $paged,
'ignore_sticky_posts' => 1
);

Yours may look slightly different if you changed the # of posts per page already. In my case, I wanted to ONLY use category #9, so I changed it to:
$args = array(
'posts_per_page' => 4,
'paged' => $paged,
'ignore_sticky_posts' => 1,
'cat' => 9
);

Note the extra comma after the ‘previously-last’ line!

If you want to exclude categories, you’d use the directions above, but instead of : ‘cat’ => 9 you’d use: ‘cat’ => ‘-1,-2,-3’