diff --git a/themes/mytheme/mytheme.yaml b/themes/mytheme/mytheme.yaml
index fe60e5af1a..612dc6051c 100644
--- a/themes/mytheme/mytheme.yaml
+++ b/themes/mytheme/mytheme.yaml
@@ -21,6 +21,6 @@ params:
   sidebar:            # params for the sidebar
     maxentries: 5     # maximum number of articles to display in "Popular" and "Latest" sections
     show:
-      categories: false  # show Category list in the sidebar
+      categories: true  # show Category list in the sidebar
       popular: true     # show the Popular Articles sidebar
       latest: true      # show the Latest Articles sidebar
diff --git a/themes/mytheme/templates/partials/authorposts.html.twig b/themes/mytheme/templates/partials/authorposts.html.twig
index dd0e3bb2a6..e84d6af907 100644
--- a/themes/mytheme/templates/partials/authorposts.html.twig
+++ b/themes/mytheme/templates/partials/authorposts.html.twig
@@ -13,10 +13,8 @@
 {% set pages = taxonomy.findTaxonomy({'author': author}).order('date', 'desc') %}
 {% set tmplst = [] %}
 <h2>{{ author }}</h2>
-<ul>
 {% for page in pages %}
     {% set blisted = false %}
-<li> {{ page}} </li>
     {% for bcat in blist %}
         {% if bcat in page.taxonomy["category"] %}
             {% set blisted = true %}
@@ -26,8 +24,7 @@
         {% set tmplst = tmplst|merge([page]) %}
     {% endif %}
 {% endfor %}
-</ul>
-{% set pages = tmplst|slice(0,10) %}
+{% set pages = tmplst|slice(0,maxcount) %}
 
 <section class="topiclist">
     <ul>