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function tk_instant_articles_authors( $authors, $post_id) {
	$authors = array();
    return $authors;
}
add_filter('instant_articles_authors', 'tk_instant_articles_authors', 10, 2);

Thanks Gulflee

I have been ages trying to work out just how to create a look up for names referred to in a post.

For other readers info here, I have created categories for general use in a mimbo based theme site.

It’s a dog rescue group who have a need to know which dog was referred to in a blog post. (Blogger dealt with that by using labels).

So I have created a category called AllDogs and hidden that by enabling Advanced Category Excluder plugin. (*NOTE – the parent you hide in this theme needs to be at the top of the category list, eg Aa , otherwise if it is halfway down, then the top categories get hidden without choice.)

I have then created, and new posters will be able to create more, sub categories of the hidden AllDogs category.

Then using the code provided by Gulflee above and using the appropriate category_ID number and changing “Select Event” to read “Select Name” I have a drop down list of just Dogs names and the parent & children do not appear in the “Browse Categories” feature of the mimbo theme.

Long winded post but I hope of some use to somebody.