Exclude posts with taxonomy term from appearing on homepage query WordPress

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Please see below my index.php query in gists.

It is not your basic query because I have a special drop down menu to filter posts on the home page.

I have a taxonomy set up called Site Position, and my term is called Home Page Exclude. This taxonomy is assigned to my posts.


My question is, how can I exclude posts from my query which have the term called 'home-page-exclude'?

Please see my home page query below.

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This is what I have tried but doesn't work. Click gist below...

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As you can see from my attempt, I added this...

$tax_query = array (array(

'taxonomy' => 'position',
'terms' => 'home-page-exclude',
'field' => 'slug',
'operator' => 'NOT IN'

));


And then add $tax_query into my query, see below...

<?php wp_reset_query(); $posts = query_posts($query_string . $order . $tax_query); ?>



Some one who post winning answer will get all prize.

Thanks

Answers (3)

2012-07-26

Ivaylo Draganov answers:

You are passing a wrong thing to query_posts -- you are appending an array to a string. You should use an array for all the arguments:
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Josh Cranwell comments:

Peeeeeerfect

Couldnt get it to work, but then added in the { } around the conditons and bingo.

Didnt know you can merge argument like that - pretty cool

Thanks

2012-07-26

webGP answers:

Hi,

use this code:

$args = array(
'post_type' => 'post',
'post_satus' => 'publish',
'order' => 'DESC',
'orderby' => 'date',
'tax_query' => array(
array(
'taxonomy' => 'position',
'field' => 'slug',
'terms' => 'home-page-exclude',
'operator' => 'NOT IN'
)
)
);

query_posts($args);


2012-07-26

paul de wouters answers:

Don't use query_posts, instead you can use the pre_get_posts filter to modify the main query.
I also suggest using a custom field instead of a taxonomy for filtering the posts out.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/pre_get_posts

you can also check for any $_POST variables inside the filter hook , such as your dropdown select value.