How to hide a post from the main page and category using a tag

  • Resolved dend359

    (@dend359)


    11 years, 7 months ago

    Hi there,

    I am having trouble with trying to hide posts from the main index page and category page using certain tags.

    For instance, if I add a tag to a post that says “exclude”, that’s a label to not show the post anywhere on the main page or category.

    I don’t really know what to add since I’m not a programmer, but I know that I need to find the ID number of this tag. How can I go on from here?

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  • Check out this example.

    https://wp-snippets.com/exclude-posts-with-certain-tag-from-loop/

    Thread Starter dend359

    (@dend359)

    That didn’t seem to work, it forced my whole site to go down.

    Is there a way I can exclude posts preferably by an ID number?

    Use this

    tag__not_in=4

    so it may looks something like

    query_posts( 'tag__not_in=4' );

    Thread Starter dend359

    (@dend359)

    Well I’ll be honest, I don’t know what I’m really doing since I’m not a programmer. I keep making the site go down. I’ll paste the code here to see if anyone can give me a lend.

    <?php get_header(); ?>

        <div id="load_posts_container">

        <?php

        $category_ID = get_category_id('blog');

        $args = array(

                     'post_type' => 'post',

                     'posts_per_page' => 12,

                     'cat' => '-' . $category_ID,

                     'paged' => ( get_query_var('paged') ? get_query_var('paged') : 1)

                     );            

        query_posts($args);

        $x = 0;

        $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;

        if($paged > 1) 

          $y = (0 + (($paged-1) * 12));

        else

          $y = 0;

        while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>                                                                      

            <?php if($x == 2) { ?>

            <div class="home_post_box home_post_box_last" onmouseover="show_post_desc(<?php echo $y; ?>)" onmouseout="hide_post_desc(<?php echo $y; ?>)">

            <?php } else { ?>

            <div class="home_post_box" onmouseover="show_post_desc(<?php echo $y; ?>)" onmouseout="hide_post_desc(<?php echo $y; ?>)">

            <?php } ?>

                <!--<img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/blog-image.jpg" />-->

                <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail('home-post',array('alt' => 'post image', 'class' => 'rounded')); ?></a>

                <div class="home_post_desc" id="home_post_desc<?php echo $y; ?>">

                    <?php $temp_arr_content = explode(" ",substr(strip_tags(get_the_content()),0,225)); $temp_arr_content[count($temp_arr_content)-1] = ""; $display_arr_content = implode(" ",$temp_arr_content); echo $display_arr_content . '...'; ?>

                </div><!--//home_post_desc-->

                <div class="home_post_title_cont">

                    <h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>

                    <h4><?php the_category(', '); ?></h4>

                </div><!--//home_post_title_cont-->

            </div><!--//home_post_box-->

            <?php if($x == 2) { $x = -1; /*echo '<div class="clear"></div>';*/ } ?>

        <?php $x++; $y++; ?>

        <?php endwhile; ?>        

        <?php wp_reset_query(); ?>        

        <div class="clear"></div>

        </div><!--//load_posts_container-->

        <div class="load_more_cont">

            <p align="center"><span class="load_more_text"><?php next_posts_link('<img src="' . get_bloginfo('stylesheet_directory') . '/images/load-more-image.png" />') ?></span></p>

        </div><!--//load_more_cont-->

<script type="text/javascript">

// Ajax-fetching "Load more posts"

$('.load_more_cont a').live('click', function(e) {

	e.preventDefault();

	//$(this).addClass('loading').text('Loading...');

        //$('.load_more_text a').html('Loading...');

	$.ajax({

		type: "GET",

		url: $(this).attr('href') + '#main_container',

		dataType: "html",

		success: function(out) {

			result = $(out).find('#load_posts_container .home_post_box');

			nextlink = $(out).find('.load_more_cont a').attr('href');

                        //alert(nextlink);

			//$('#boxes').append(result).masonry('appended', result);

                    $('#load_posts_container').append(result);

			//$('.fetch a').removeClass('loading').text('Load more posts');

                        //$('.load_more_text a').html('Load More');

			if (nextlink != undefined) {

				$('.load_more_cont a').attr('href', nextlink);

			} else {

				$('.load_more_cont').remove();

                                $('#load_posts_container').append('<div class="clear"></div>');

                              //  $('.load_more_cont').css('visibilty','hidden');

			}

                    if (nextlink != undefined) {

                        $.get(nextlink, function(data) {

                          //alert(nextlink);

                          if($(data + ":contains('home_post_box')") != '') {

                            //alert('not found');

                              //                      $('.load_more_cont').remove();

                                                    $('#load_posts_container').append('<div class="clear"></div>');        

                          }

                        });                        

                    }

		}

	});

});

</script>        

<?php get_footer(); ?>

    In the $args = array(, add

    ‘posts_per_page’ => 3,

    3 is the tag id.

    Let me know how it goes.

    Thread Starter dend359

    (@dend359)

    Hi Ryan, that only makes the total post to 3. But I’ve figured it out!

    I added this:

    ‘tag__not_in’ => array(‘6’); //6 is the tag ID for any WP newbie like myself

    <?php

        $category_ID = get_category_id('blog');

        $args = array(

                     'post_type' => 'post',

//I added this simple code!
'tag__not_in' => array('6'),

                     'posts_per_page' => 12,

                     'cat' => '-' . $category_ID,

                     'paged' => ( get_query_var('paged') ? get_query_var('paged') : 1)

                     );

    Now I have trouble excluding this tag in the category section!Any clue on that?

    Here’s my category php

    <?php get_header(); ?>

        <div id="load_posts_container">

        <?php

        $x = 0;

        $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;

        if($paged > 1) 

          $y = (0 + (($paged-1) * 12));

        else

          $y = 0;

global $wp_query;

$args = array_merge( $wp_query->query, array( 'posts_per_page' => 9 ) );

query_posts( $args );

        while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>                                                                      

            <?php if($x == 2) { ?>

            <div class="home_post_box home_post_box_last" onmouseover="show_post_desc(<?php echo $y; ?>)" onmouseout="hide_post_desc(<?php echo $y; ?>)">

            <?php } else { ?>

            <div class="home_post_box" onmouseover="show_post_desc(<?php echo $y; ?>)" onmouseout="hide_post_desc(<?php echo $y; ?>)">

            <?php } ?>

                <!--<img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/blog-image.jpg" />-->

                <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail('home-post',array('alt' => 'post image', 'class' => 'rounded')); ?></a>

                <div class="home_post_desc" id="home_post_desc<?php echo $y; ?>">

                    <?php $temp_arr_content = explode(" ",substr(strip_tags(get_the_content()),0,225)); $temp_arr_content[count($temp_arr_content)-1] = ""; $display_arr_content = implode(" ",$temp_arr_content); echo $display_arr_content . '...'; ?>

                </div><!--//home_post_desc-->

                <div class="home_post_title_cont">

                    <h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>

                    <h4><?php the_category(', '); ?></h4>

                </div><!--//home_post_title_cont-->

            </div><!--//home_post_box-->

            <?php if($x == 2) { $x = -1; /*echo '<div class="clear"></div>';*/ } ?>

        <?php $x++; $y++; ?>

        <?php endwhile; ?>        

        <?php wp_reset_query(); ?>        

        <div class="clear"></div>

        </div><!--//load_posts_container-->

        <div class="load_more_cont">

            <p align="center"><span class="load_more_text"><?php next_posts_link('<img src="' . get_bloginfo('stylesheet_directory') . '/images/load-more-image.png" />') ?></span></p>

        </div><!--//load_more_cont-->

<script type="text/javascript">

// Ajax-fetching "Load more posts"

$('.load_more_cont a').live('click', function(e) {

	e.preventDefault();

	//$(this).addClass('loading').text('Loading...');

        //$('.load_more_text a').html('Loading...');

	$.ajax({

		type: "GET",

		url: $(this).attr('href') + '#main_container',

		dataType: "html",

		success: function(out) {

			result = $(out).find('#load_posts_container .home_post_box');

			nextlink = $(out).find('.load_more_cont a').attr('href');

                        //alert(nextlink);

			//$('#boxes').append(result).masonry('appended', result);

                    $('#load_posts_container').append(result);

			//$('.fetch a').removeClass('loading').text('Load more posts');

                        //$('.load_more_text a').html('Load More');

			if (nextlink != undefined) {

				$('.load_more_cont a').attr('href', nextlink);

			} else {

				$('.load_more_cont').remove();

                                $('#load_posts_container').append('<div class="clear"></div>');

                              //  $('.load_more_cont').css('visibilty','hidden');

			}

                    if (nextlink != undefined) {

                        $.get(nextlink, function(data) {

                          //alert(nextlink);

                          if($(data + ":contains('home_post_box')") != '') {

                            //alert('not found');

                              //                      $('.load_more_cont').remove();

                                                    $('#load_posts_container').append('<div class="clear"></div>');        

                          }

                        });                        

                    }

		}

	});

});

</script>        

<?php get_footer(); ?>

    Haha sorry, my bad lol

    For the category page, try to replace the code

    $args = array_merge( $wp_query->query, array( 'posts_per_page' => 9 ) );

    to

    $args = array_merge( $wp_query->query, array( 'posts_per_page' => 9, 'tag__not_in' => 6 ) );

    Thread Starter dend359

    (@dend359)

    Great!! Thanks a lot for your help Ryan, you’re awesome!

    No worries ??

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