Exclude posts with certain post formats in query_posts

  • GATEKeeper

    (@gatekeeper)


    13 years, 1 month ago

    I’ve been banging my head against the keyboard trying to figure this out. Does anyone know how to exclude a given post format in query_posts?

    For example, I don’t want asides to appear on the front page.

    Up until now I’ve used this query to pull posts:

    <?php
// this is where the Features module begins
	query_posts( array( 'post__not_in' => $ids, 'showposts' => 10 ) ); ?>
    <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><img src="http://www.thegate.ca/wp-content/themes/mimbo2.2/timthumb.php?src=<?php getImage('1'); ?>&w=75&h=75&zc=1&q=100" class="alignleft" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>"></a><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" class="title">
      <?php the_title(); ?> &raquo;</a>
	  <?php the_excerpt(); ?><BR>
    <?php endwhile; ?>

    In the line “query_posts( array( ‘post__not_in’ => $ids, ‘showposts’ => 10 ) )” I have tried using ‘has_post_format’ => ‘standard’, format, $format, and a bunch of other things, but nothing seems to work.

    Can anyone help me with this?

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  • Rev. Voodoo

    (@rvoodoo)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Query#Taxonomy_Parameters

    check out the last example in the taxonomy parameters section

    Thread Starter GATEKeeper

    (@gatekeeper)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks. That does explain this a lot more, but I still can’t get it to work (I’m only somewhat literate in coding).

    Perhaps it’s worth noting that my index page starts with the query:

    <?php query_posts('showposts=1&meta_key=featured&meta_value=1');
   $ids = array();
   while (have_posts()) : the_post();
   $ids[] = get_the_ID(); ?>

    Then my second area on that page queries with:

    <?php query_posts( array( 'post__not_in' => $ids, 'showposts' => 4, 'cat' => 4 ) ); ?>'
THE LOOP

    Followed by the last section:

    <?php query_posts( array( 'post__not_in' => $ids, 'showposts' => 10, 'cat' => '-4,-1866,-27' ) ); ?>
THE LOOP

    Does that change anything?

    Thread Starter GATEKeeper

    (@gatekeeper)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Anyone have any ideas? This can’t be that difficult, is it?

    lalaalaaa

    (@lalaalaaa)

    13 years ago

    It’s not that difficult, you just have to read carefully, since there are no examples! 🙂 Rev. Voodoo’s link had the answer in the operator parameter.

    Try:

    <?php
$args = array(
  'tax_query' => array(
    array(
      'taxonomy' => 'post_format',
      'field' => 'slug',
      'terms' => 'post-format-XYZ',
      'operator' => 'NOT IN'
    )
  )
);
query_posts( $args );
?>

    Replace “XYZ” with the post format you want to exclude.

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