Hello,

These have been bugging me for a while and I've not been able to find a solution to nether:

1) Display the total number of wordpress posts, minus a category. So all posts within all category's apart from 1.

2) Display a set number of random posts on a single page.

I know these can most likely be done using a plugin but the way i want to use them isn't worth having a plugin for.

Can anyone help?