Wordpress - show all posts + ones with specific tag

Question

I have 3 types of posts as below

1. Normal posts without any tag
2. With "featured" tag
3. With "sold" tag

On a page, I just want to show normal posts + ones with featured tag and don't want to show posts with "sold" tag. How can I do the query for this?

Thanks

Answer 1

It is not advised to used query_post() as it replaces the query of the page with new instance of the query. For general post queries, use WP_Query or get_posts.

here tag__not_in takes id of the tag and not the slug, so replace sold with the id of the tag sold

like

$args = array(
    'orderby'=> 'date',
    'order' => 'DESC',
    'tag__not_in' => sold_tag_ID
);

$allposts = new WP_Query($args);