[Steven Zahm]

@ Brian

Well, with the details provided I do not see any reason for the issue.

What happens when you remove the category and exclude_category options? The only change to these recently is to use a core WordPress function to convert a string of numbers to an integer array rather than doing it “manually” in both instances. Basically this reduces code bloat. Since the code does the same thing, although using a different approach, there would be no material effect of the function of those options.

Sorry, for the ramble…

If you get results after remove thing, try adding them back one at a time. What happens?