Title: Author Posts Page – exclude posts
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Author Posts Page – exclude posts

 *  Resolved [Martin Black](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ownedbyhleb/)
 * (@ownedbyhleb)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-posts-page-exclude-posts/)
 * I currently have a page template `author.php` which is almost identical to the
   [Sample Author Page Template](http://codex.wordpress.org/Author_Templates#Sample_Template_File).
   However, how do I control the which posts it generates?
 * Essentially I would like to exclude categories from which it gets the authors
   posts; Is this possible?
 * Thanks.

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 *  Thread Starter [Martin Black](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ownedbyhleb/)
 * (@ownedbyhleb)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-posts-page-exclude-posts/#post-2320088)
 * I have solved this by simply using the `query_posts` to exclude categories. My`
   author.php` now has this line just before the loop starts:
 *     ```
       <?php query_posts($query_string . '&cat=-69,-68'); ?>
       <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
       ```
   

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 * Last reply from: [Martin Black](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ownedbyhleb/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-posts-page-exclude-posts/#post-2320088)
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