Manipulate loop-slider.php to exclude a specific tag from query_posts

Hi,

as many others I was looking for a way to exclude one or more blogposts from the home-page slider.

With you tip @Daniel to look into the loop-slider.php I read on about query_posts and how to fiddle with it.

I thus resorted to giving the posts I want to exclude a certain tag \\\”exclude\\\” (tag_id 18 for me) which I wanted to exclude.

Your original $args for query_posts were defined and executed here:

[code] global $wp_query, $query_string;
$paged = get_query_var( ‘paged’ );
$args = array(
‘posts_per_page’ => 4,
‘paged’ => $paged,
‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => 1
);
$args = wp_parse_args( $args, $wp_query->query );
?>
<?php query_posts( $args ); ?>[/code]

To exclude my specific tag I needed to include [b]’tag__not_in’ => array(18),[/b] somewhere. So what I changed your $args-array to was just:

[code] global $wp_query, $query_string;
$paged = get_query_var( ‘paged’ );
$args = array(
‘posts_per_page’ => 4,
[b]’tag__not_in’ => array(18),[/b]
‘paged’ => $paged,
‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => 1
);
$args = wp_parse_args( $args, $wp_query->query );
?>
<?php query_posts( $args ); ?>[/code]

Yet – this has absolutely no effect at all on the homepage slider. The post tagged with “exclude” is still shown in the slider.

Where did I step wrong?

The webpage is the following: http://www.amarquardt.de and the post to be exluded is http://photoblog.amarquardt.de/2011/10/24/paris-paris/ (tagged “exclude” of course).

Thanks for the help!

Bregs
Amq