title: Exclude Featured Post from Custom Query WordPress
body: <p>This is the custom query I'm running to display post from 2 categories.
  I have installed WordPress Plugin "Featured Post" but the featured post is not excluding from the displayed list.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php 
       $category_id = get_cat_ID($strReports || $strInsights);
       $custom_query = new WP_Query( 'cat=' .$category_id. '&amp;featured=no&amp;posts_per_page=6&amp;order=desc' );
       while($custom_query-&gt;have_posts()) : $custom_query-&gt;the_post();
  ?&gt; 
  
  HTML Content Here
  
  &lt;?php endwhile; ?&gt;
  &lt;?php wp_reset_query(); // reset the query ?&gt;
  </code></pre>