How-to exclude terms from the main query the most performant way?
You can set the taxonomy query for the main query using pre_get_posts: add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘my_exclude_terms_from_query’ ); function my_exclude_terms_from_query( $query ) { if ( $query->is_main_query() /* && whatever else */ ) { $tax_query = array ( array( ‘taxonomy’ => ‘category’, ‘terms’ => array( ‘cat-slug’ ), ‘field’ => ‘slug’, ‘operator’ => ‘NOT IN’, ) ); $query->set( ‘tax_query’, … Read more