Exclude child categories from a query

[digismith]

There are 2 posts for this already but I can’t glean an answer from them. This is such a simple request but I cannot get it to work.

How do I select parent or child when using terms query loop?

Hi, Trying to narrow down which categories are shown by parent/child categories in a query loop. How do I define which one in the loop? Do I just write the name of the category or what do I need to do? [image]

Query Loop For Just Parent Posts

Hello, How do you ignore child posts in query loop? i have posts with parent/child relations and the query loop filters both parent and child. i require a filter to show only the parent posts Any ideas appreaciated as always

I have categories with children - e.g. Category = Hats, subcats=black, red, green
I have 4 posts in HATS, and several posts in black, red and green - A post in Black will only have ‘Black’ category selected, not ‘Hats’.
I want to fetch only the posts in HATS - and NOT those in the child categories.
But everything I try returns all posts in Hats AND black, green and red… or returns nothing.