Title: Shortcode combining Author and Category
Last modified: July 2, 2021

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# Shortcode combining Author and Category

 *  [flaviomester](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flaviomester/)
 * (@flaviomester)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-combining-author-and-category/)
 * Is there a way to list all the posts of a given author, but only for a specific
   category? Something like [display-posts author=”bill” and category=”fishing”]
   doesn’t work, but I was wondering whether there’s some syntax that would. Thanks.

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