How to Exclude Posts with a Certain Tag in Thesis

Many of you have found the post on excluding categories from you blog very helpful. However, what happens when you want to exclude posts with a certain tag from appearing on the blog? Well, thankfully that is an extremely simple operation.

The first thing you have to do is figure what the tag id is. Simply go to Posts->Post Tags and hover over the name of the tag. Look at the bottom of the browser window (in the status bar) and look at the number on the end.

If you are confused, watch this video.

Next, open up custom_functions.php and enter the following (yes, that is two underscores between tag__not ):

function exclude_tag($query) {
if ( $query->is_home) {
	$query-> set('tag__not_in',array(ID));
	}
return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts','exclude_tag');

Where I have ID, you should have the number for the tag you want to exclude. For instance, 24 or 1. It is very important that you do not put apostrophes around the number. Also, if you want more than one tag, you would do the following:

function exclude_tag($query) {
if ( $query->is_home) {
	$query-> set('tag__not_in',array(ID, ID, ID, ID));
	}
return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts','exclude_tag');

That is pretty much all there is to it!

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