how do I exclude child categories from a wp_query?

you can use the 'category__in' in WP_Query;
example:

$feed = WP_Query(array('category__in' => array(102), 'posts_per_page' => 3, 'order' => 'DESC'));

Related Posts:

  1. No exposure on search engines
  2. Related posts with WP_Query
  3. Adding css tweak based on page template
  4. Renaming or Moving WP-Content Pros/Cons
  5. Carousel slider with WP_Query to show 3 posts on each slide
  6. how to use transient method?
  7. Displaying specific posts from query thumbnail outside div
  8. Query posts only shows 1
  9. Get users query makes the site loading time too big?
  10. how do i remove plusone js from WP? [closed]
  11. Fatal error with wp-livechat plugin
  12. WordPress query very slow on +/- 300k DB entries and 7 INNER JOIN
  13. How to create a loop inside WP_Query?
  14. Add banner after the third post [closed]
  15. Get author meta data with no published posts in author.php?
  16. Query for page content, and query for posts on the same page?
  17. Can’t seem to get an else statement correct? [closed]
  18. WP Query Obj: Set value to be unequal | Hide media by admin
  19. How to sort by post_date and meta_value_num?
  20. 294 Queries on Mainpage of WordPress
  21. WordPress pagination returns the same posts
  22. get_posts shows current post, not defined posts with args
  23. Weird query with get_posts and WP_Query
  24. Adding arguments to WooCommerce Product Loop using AJAX
  25. How to hook the pre_get_posts filter via ajax call
  26. WP_Query and DES sort for Custom Taxonomy based upon a meta field?
  27. Help with showing text when something is entered in my search bar
  28. Remove divs and spans from post content
  29. Get Related Posts by Tag if Tag is Empty Get Posts by Category
  30. How to write a query-function as a query-shortcode?
  31. orderby and order filter in get_posts or WP_query function in wordpress not working
  32. How to show featured post first, then separate loop for other posts
  33. How to order “top rated” results by date and meta key?
  34. error with $query->have_posts()
  35. Output ACF field dynamicaly within a taxonomy loop [closed]
  36. Main loop querying current template’s info only in custom category archive pages, not my posts
  37. Multiple Orderby is not working right
  38. Why does WP_Query not search for two ‘meta_query’ keys separated with OR?
  39. Getting posts via WP Query
  40. Print post data inside loop using theme content template
  41. shortcode with $atts with strange results
  42. Show linked products using wp query and woocommerce
  43. Where to find WP_Query class?
  44. Standard Loop – wp_query
  45. tax_query not working properly with get_posts
  46. Why wp_query return 1 row if i have 3 row pass in it
  47. Query custom post types by meta field in a term from custom taxonomy
  48. WP_Query with tax_query not working
  49. Edit WordPress loop, taxonomies, & filter
  50. Pagination with Custom Post Type not working on index.php: I get a 404
  51. how to add limit records in wordpress query
  52. query only direct child and sub-terms of a current term archive
  53. restrict posts per page
  54. WP_Query – meta fields numeric
  55. First post outside of loop, homepage only?
  56. How to query posts from single post format on Genesis framework
  57. How to write short code with if else to get page_id?
  58. the_excerpt() not working in custom archive
  59. Filter posts by category
  60. how to show only catergory titles on a page in wordpress
  61. Limit the number of posts via wpquery
  62. How can I filter a query by post id?
  63. Get posts by meta value except one post [closed]
  64. query_vars category_name only display one catgory out of multiple categories
  65. Incorrect posts displayed on category page
  66. Pagination on custom post type not working
  67. How can I echo out the user id in user meta?
  68. Can’t get LIKE to work with wp_query [closed]
  69. Get all user with both meta_value
  70. have_posts order by title descending
  71. How to handle wp_query?
  72. Hook to get the query result after listing posts
  73. Undefined variable [closed]
  74. How can I display sticky posts at first in wp_query?
  75. How do I split a large query with a semi-expensive function included into multiple smaller queries
  76. Elementor custom query
  77. Why does $post_id = $wp_query->get_queried_object_id(); return 0?
  78. Custom WP_query in Jnews theme returns thousands of posts
  79. WP Query – if there are no posts with certain tag query other ones
  80. How to know which editor published a post programmatically?
  81. How does ‘category__not_in’ differ to cat => ‘-1’?
  82. wp_query loop with compare operator simply not working, why?
  83. Custom Wp_query loop takes very long
  84. Get access to all terms associated to each post that the wp_query loop displays
  85. Pre_get_post on CPT archive page
  86. WP query based on two meta queries
  87. How to account for empty key values in wp_query?
  88. Get comment number by date range?
  89. WP_Query – order with usort by custom meta
  90. WordPress website links redirect to homepage
  91. Filtering product search results using tags
  92. WordPress Show 4 posts from 4 specific categories in a slider
  93. How to display posts from a specific term first then another posts from another terms using tax_query
  94. WP_Query by meta key not returning any posts
  95. How to replecate the _fields parameter in custom REST api endpoint
  96. Get posts that were most recently tagged
  97. How to retrieve _embed (etc) fields in get_posts custom query?
  98. how to fetch post_name from WP_Query using Group by a custom value field
  99. Using ‘meta_query’ with the ‘pre_get_posts()’ hook disables searching for post titles
  100. WordPress extremely slow when using get_posts with multiple meta_query relations