How to Exclude Posts with a Word from WordPress Query

These kinds of functionalities are the main reason that I Love WP 🙂

If you are looking for a way to query WordPress posts, you better first read my tutorial on how to query WordPress posts. Then you can continue this tutorial to learn how to exclude posts from a query by specifying a keyword.

Exclude WordPress Posts from a Query by Keyword

use 's' => '-title' in your arguments when you’re executing the get_posts function (replace title with your desired keyword). This way, you tell the WP to exclude all those posts from the get_post query.

$keywordToExclude = "change keyword here";
$args = array(
	's' => '-'.$keywordToExclude
);

//query posts
$posts = get_posts($args);

//print all posts without the keyword in title
foreach ($posts as $post){
	echo "Title: ".$post->post_title." 
";
}