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How to exclude post_type asides from being displayed?

By Ovidiu, 10 years ago. Last reply by Andrew Misplon, 10 years ago.
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I tried to figure it out via the query post link you give but its above my head.
You can see in the link below that the 2 posts that are post_type aides don’t have a title or an image so I’d like to exclude them.

URL: http://pacura.ru/photography/

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  1. 10 years, 3 months ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Hi Ovidiu

    Please see my answer here: Thread: How to add masonry to my categories?

    Thanks :)

  2. 10 years, 3 months ago Ovidiu

    Sorry Andrew I made a mistake, I didn’t mean to ask about posts and categories but rather about post formats => https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Formats#Supported_Formats
    Say if I have a category containing psots with different post formats but I only want to show certain one or hide certain ones? i.e. there is a psot format: image and one gallery say I only want to show those two formats from a specific category?

  3. 10 years, 3 months ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Ahh right, got you. I’m not sure that’ll be possible in the widget. In theory it should be. Here is a little on how that might be done in a conventional query argument:

    https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query

    See: Nested Taxonomy Handling.

    A more manual way of excluding specific posts might be to use:

    p=-1,-2

    Where 1 and 2 are the post ID’s we are hiding. We could do the same with categories:

    cat=-1,-2
  4. 10 years, 3 months ago Ovidiu

    OK, I get your example above with cat=-1 for example but in a more complex example, say this one (taken from the page you linked to) which part would I copy into that line for the wp query argument, would that be the whole code I posted below?

     $args = array(
	'post_type' => 'post',
	'tax_query' => array(
		'relation' => 'OR',
		array(
			'taxonomy' => 'category',
			'field'    => 'slug',
			'terms'    => array( 'quotes' ),
		),
		array(
			'taxonomy' => 'post_format',
			'field'    => 'slug',
			'terms'    => array( 'post-format-quote' ),
		),
	),
);
  5. 10 years, 2 months ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Hi Ovidiu, so sorry about the delay. I wasn’t checking my forum priority lists properly and missed your reply. My bad!

    Our new Post Loop widget has a query builder, making this much easier. Try this.

    Add a Post Loop widget.
    Click Build Posts Query.
    In the Taxonomies field search for “image”. In this example, if you have posts saved as Post Format: Image you should see a result as follows: “post_format: image”. Choose that.
    Your query will now only display posts with the format “image”.
    Next you could use the Taxonomies field again and search for a category. You can keep adding onto on the query.
    You can also use the Additional field at the bottom to manually exclude a category.

    Hopefully this gets you going.

  6. 10 years, 2 months ago Ovidiu

    Thanks, the new query builder is ingenious, there is just one thing that could be better:

    say I select post_format: image in taxonomies field then wan to add 1 specific post by selecting it, that narrows it down because by default its an AND selection.

    say I select post_format: image in taxonomies field then add a second taxonomy again it gets narrowed town as its an AND selecttion.

    This tool would be so much more powerful if we could select between AND / OR relations between the criteria we can select via the query builder.

    i.e. add 1 specic post select OR and select a category, meaning I get the full category + the one post

    or alternatively
    select 2 categories and put OR between them so I get both

    Do you think this is doable maybe in a future version?

  7. 10 years, 2 months ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Hi Ovidiu, thanks for the feedback, it’s how we improve things. Let me chat to Greg about this tomorrow and come back to you. I can definitely see the use case for building a query as you’ve described. In the short term I think it’ll be a limitation of the query builder. We’ll chat on our side tomorrow, look at what’s possible and come back to you with some feedback :)

  8. 10 years, 2 months ago Ovidiu

    Cool, thanks for considering, it would be quite an improvement.
    Btw. here’s a similar query builder, just to give you some ideas.

  9. 10 years, 2 months ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Thanks again for your feedback on this. I’ve passed it onto Greg. For the moment we’ve marked this as a feature request.

    Could you perhaps let me know the name of the plugin you tried. The link unfortunately didn’t come through.

    Thanks :)

  10. 10 years, 2 months ago Ovidiu

    oh, no idea why the link is missing but its called Query Wrangler https://wordpress.org/plugins/query-wrangler/

  11. 10 years, 2 months ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Super, thanks for sharing that with us. We’ll take a look.

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