How do I exclude categories from get_tags?

Question

I have this function

$tags = get_tags( array('exclude' => 11, 12) )

Which excludes specific tags 11 and 12. But without manually having to add each tag ID I don't want shown, how do I exclude the category that these tags are coming from?

Answer 1

Since this question is too hard to ask, I'm going to use custom taxonomies. Thanks for your help so far, everyone.

Answer 2

You could get all of the term IDs for the badcategory and use those in your exclude filter:

$bad_terms = get_terms( [ 'taxonomy' => 'badcategory', 'fields' => 'ids' ] );
$good_tags = get_tags( [ 'exclude' => $bad_terms ] );