Magnus Jepson » query_posts http://www.jepson.no Web Designer, Co-Founder of WooThemes Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:02:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 How to exclude specific tag from query_posts http://www.jepson.no/how-to-exclude-specific-tag-from-query_posts/ http://www.jepson.no/how-to-exclude-specific-tag-from-query_posts/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:17:16 +0000 Magnus http://www.jepson.no/?p=436 On the upcoming theme I’m working on I needed to have a featured section on the left side, and normal posts on the right. Usually I would put the featured posts in a category, and excluded that from the normal posts. But for the end user, it is much easier to just tag the posts they want to be featured with “featured”. That way they don’t have to create a category called featured, select that in the options panel etc.

It isn’t so well documented,  so after talking to Adii we came up with the following code that does the job perfectly for the right hand side normal posts:

  1. get_var("SELECT term_ID FROM $wpdb->terms WHERE name=’featured’");                     
  2.  
  3. $paged = (get_query_var(‘paged’)) ? get_query_var(‘paged’) : 1;
  4. $args=array(
  5.    ‘tag__not_in’ => array($tag),
  6.    ‘paged’=>$paged,
  7.    );
  8. query_posts($args);
  9. ?>

The left side query is simple and just looks like this

  1.  
  2. <?php query_posts(‘tag=featured’); ?>
  3.  
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