Sorry it is being difficult, but still not working…

I updated my plugin with your changes, set my shortcode to “[eme_events paging=1 limit=0 scope=this_year notcategory=2,8]“, and simplified my event list code to:

Default event list format header

<table class="eme-event-list-table">
<thead>
<tr>
<th class="column1"><h2>Date</h2></th>
<th class="column2"><h2>Name</h2></th>
<th class="column3"><h2>Leader</h2></th>
<th class="column4"><h2>Location</h2></th>
<th class="column5"><h2>Type</h2></th>
<th class="column6mobile"><h2>Location</h2></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>

Default event list format

<tr>
<td class="column1">#_{M j}[eme_if2 tag="#ESC_{M j Y}" notvalue="#ESC@_{M j Y}"] – [eme_if3 tag="#ESC_{M}" notvalue="#ESC@_{M}"]#@_{M }[/eme_if3]#@_{j}[/eme_if2]</td>
<td class="column2">#_LINKEDNAME</td>
<td class="column3">#_ATT{Leader}</td>
<td class="column4"><a href="#_EVENTPAGEURL">#_TOWN</a></td>
<td class="column5">#_CATEGORIES</td>
<td class="column6mobile"><a href="#_EVENTPAGEURL">#_TOWN</a></td>
</tr>

Default event list format footer

</tbody>
</table>

I am still getting a list that includes all categories…

That works.

Actually, “show me events not in cat 2 or 8″ is what I need, but someone else may need the “not in cat 2 and not in cat 8″ ability.

…if I’m understanding correctly – lol. Confusing…

I am using notcategory=X+X+etc… wherever I need it and all is working.

But for consistency’s sake, would you want it to be notcategory=X,X,etc… instead?

This would be consistent with the “category=” in the doc.

category limits the events shown to those of a certain category ID. You can specify multiple categories for AND and OR limitations: “1,3” for events in category 1 OR 3, “1+3″ for events in category 1 AND 3. Use the literal ‘none’ if you want to filter on events without category: “1,none” would mean to show events in category 1 or without category.

Maybe I’m still confused… 🙂 But things are working with the +’s.