Title: [Plugin: Author Avatars List] Hide certain users?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Author Avatars List] Hide certain users?

 *  [thepunch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thepunch/)
 * (@thepunch)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-author-avatars-list-hide-certain-users/)
 * Hi, I was wondering if it’s possible to hide users with certain roles (I only
   want admin, editors, and authors to show up).
 * Basically my site’s columnists change often, so when an author leaves I want 
   to change his role to ‘contributor’ so his author page still exists but he does
   not show up on the list of authors.
 * My list looks like this:
    [http://thepunchbowl.net/?page_id=7](http://thepunchbowl.net/?page_id=7)
 * Is this possible? If not, can I just hide individual authors from this page?
 * Thanks

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Ben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bforchhammer/)
 * (@bforchhammer)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-author-avatars-list-hide-certain-users/#post-1903140)
 * Yes, you can restrict the list of users by roles. Simply add the `roles` parameter
   to your shortcode, like this:
 * Example: `[authoravatars roles=administrator,editor]`
 * For more information please visit the [shortcode documentation](https://authoravatars.wordpress.com/documentation/authoravatars-shortcode/)
   page.
 * Ben
 *  Thread Starter [thepunch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thepunch/)
 * (@thepunch)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-author-avatars-list-hide-certain-users/#post-1903159)
 * This may sound stupid, but is it possible to hide the avatars and just list the
   names? I can’t figure out how restrict the roles of the normal wp_list_authors
 *  Plugin Contributor [Ben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bforchhammer/)
 * (@bforchhammer)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-author-avatars-list-hide-certain-users/#post-1903206)
 * Avatars are the “core” feature of the plugin so to say… there’s no option to 
   remove them, sorry.

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-author-avatars-list-hide-certain-users/#post-1903206)
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