WordPress Recent Posts excluding current category

To display recent posts from other categories excluding current category in which current posts resides then following code inside single.php will display recent 5 posts from same category.

Just add following code inside single.php file at the location where you want to display recent posts.

Recent Posts From Other Categories
<ul>
<?php
global $post;
$category = get_the_category($post->ID);
$category = $category[0]->cat_ID;
$myposts = get_posts(array('numberposts' => 5, 'offset' => 0, 'category__not_in' => array($category), 'post__not_in' => array($post->ID),'post_status'=>'publish'));
foreach($myposts as $post) :
setup_postdata($post);
?>
<li>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
<?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>
</ul>

If you want to display recent posts from same category in which current post resides then try this code on my other post

WordPress Recent posts from Current / Same Category