cutting certain categories from the "featured" and "new" products boxes

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Blocking sold items from being displayed in New Products by inserting and p.products_quantity > 0 did solve that issue. However, I still need to block one, single category from appearing as new. Is this possible?

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OK, I believe that I worked this out, as well. To resolve my issue, I edited includes/modules/pages/products_new/header_php.php (There is no override file - Please save a backup). Find this snippet of code:

WHERE p.products_status = 1 

and add the following underneath (26 being the number of the category being blocked):

and p.master_categories_id != 26 

and includes/modules/your_template/new_products.php. Find this snippet of code:

where p.products_id = pd.products_id 

and add the following underneath (26 being the number of the category being blocked):

and p.master_categories_id != 26 

I've found that you can also block the subcatagories by following the same procedure. Here I've also blocked sub cat 27:

and p.master_categories_id != 26
and p.master_categories_id != 27