Is it possible exclude an entry type from result of craft.entries?

Question

I would like to fetch all entries apart from those of a specific type: 'chapter'. How do I achieve this with a standard call to 'craft.entries'?

{% set results = craft.entries({
  'search': query,
  'order': 'score'
}) %}

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 17 '18 at 10:14

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Going through Craft's docs, I found no easy or official way to do this. Fastest possible way, in my opinion:

{# get all section IDs #}
{% set sections = craft.sections.getAllSections() %}

{# get all entry types for sections #}
{% set entryTypes = [] %}
{% for section in sections %}
    {# exclude the entry type you don't want, add the others to 'entryTypes' variable
       you could, of course, replace handle by ID or whatever you like #}
    {% for entryType in section.getEntryTypes() if entryType.handle != 'handleToExclude' %}
        {% set entryTypes = entryTypes | merge([entryType]) %}
    {% endfor %}
{% endfor %}

{% set entries = craft.entries.section('inhoud').type(entryTypes) %}

edited Aug 17 '18 at 10:14

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answered Nov 18 '14 at 16:44

Paul

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This is what I tried but it doesn't work—I get 0 results. – hamishtaplin Nov 19 '14 at 10:04
Could you show me your code? – Paul Nov 19 '14 at 11:45
Exactly as you have it there, I get no results. – hamishtaplin Nov 20 '14 at 09:06
Did you replace entryTypeHandle with your entry type's handle? – Paul Nov 20 '14 at 11:47
Of course. Also, if I specify a type it works fine, just the 'not' bit seems to break things. – hamishtaplin Nov 20 '14 at 12:00
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Ok. You got me there. My solution doesn't work, and after diving into Crafts code I know why: the type criterium does not accept 'not'. It only accepts a string containing the entry type's handle, an Int with the entry type's id or an entryTypeModel. Or an array containing one or more of those. Let me think about the best way to work around this for a moment. – Paul Nov 20 '14 at 12:29
Edited my answer, and tested the solution. It works on my side. – Paul Nov 20 '14 at 12:57
Weird isn't it? Could well be a bug. – hamishtaplin Nov 20 '14 at 13:11
Or a missing feature ;) – Paul Nov 20 '14 at 13:19
Bump, missing feature. The not clause works on other fields but not the type field. :( – veritascs Jan 14 '15 at 22:48
Works for me in Craft 3 with the following modification: merge([entryType.handle]) – Crafty Cat Oct 13 '18 at 06:52

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 04 '20 at 12:03

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If anyone lands on this page same as I did, the far far simpler way to do this is just to include the .type() method and combine it with the 'not' word:

{% set results = craft.entries({
  'search': query,
  'type': 'not chapter',
  'order': 'score'
}) %}

answered Sep 04 '20 at 12:03

darylknight

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This is the correct modern answer to the OP – Adrian Oct 21 '22 at 14:04

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 18 '14 at 16:14

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You can target the entry by ID and tell it 'not' to include it. The example below will exclude the current entry page. You can replace "#{entry.id}" with the ID of the entry you want to exclude.

{% set results = craft.entries({
  'id': "not #{entry.id}",
  'search': query,
  'order': 'score'
}) %}

answered Nov 18 '14 at 16:14

Mark Notton

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Sorry if unclear but I wish to exclude all entries of an entry type, not a single entry. – hamishtaplin Nov 18 '14 at 16:15

Is it possible exclude an entry type from result of craft.entries?

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