Hide posts from users with a specific role

Question

Simply put, I need to hide all posts on the frontend if they are written by authors with a specific role. The role I have created is called 'Suspended'.

I'm happy with putting a simple IF statement around the loop which prevents posts from a certain role ID from appearing. Preferably though it would be something I can enter into the WP_Query.

I Can't use user ID as there would be xx number of users with the same role.

Does anyone know how this could/ would be done? Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Use WP_User_Query to build a list of suspended authors` ids, then use that list with minuses for inversion as author parameter in query.