Exclude post type from custom taxonomy template

Question

I have setup a custom taxonomy called "video_categories" and have set it to two different custom post types - "videos" and "locations".

I am using the template "taxonomy-video_categories.php" to display the posts that have related taxonomys but I would only like to display the post type "videos" and exclude the post type "locations".

What did you try actually ? Show us your code. – soju Sep 06 '12 at 07:11 — soju, Sep 06 '12 at 07:11

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 06 '12 at 07:27

You can simply use query_posts to alter the main loop.

Put the following code before have_posts call :

global $query_string;
query_posts( $query_string . '&post_type=video' );

A proper way for doing this is to hook into pre_get_posts :

query_posts() is the easiest, but not preferred or most efficient, way to alter the default query that WordPress uses to display posts. Use query_posts() to display different posts than those that would normally show up at a specific URL. (The preferred way is hooking into 'pre_get_posts' and altering the main query that way using is_main_query)

What would look like the code inside a `pre_get_posts` hook ? I mean, how do you make to not specify the video post_type to the unrelated queries? — Frank6, Apr 04 '16 at 21:31

Exclude post type from custom taxonomy template

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