Disable Author Pages

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Completely disables author archives which then become 404 errors, converts author links to homepage links, and works with or without fancy permalinks. Join our FREE Facebook group for support Worth a 5-star review? Thank you! Plugin Homepage Plugin GitHub Current Features The vast majority of WordPress (and esp. WooCommerce) websites have no need for author pages, otherwise known as author archives. This is because by default, the author pages in WordPress simply show an “archive” of all the blog posts that the author has written for that blog or site. In otherwords, its just duplicate content and has no value. This can not only get you penalized in Google search results (SEO issues) but also confuse users who click on the author link expecting some information about the author himself (or herself). If your theme has custom author templates with information about that author such as biography, social media profile links, etc they may be worth keeping but otherwise, it’s usually better to disable them. disables all /author/... and /?author=123 permalinks/archives generates 404 errors in their place no 301 redirects, to avoid the plugin doing more than it’s description recommended to use with our 404 To Homepage free plugin works with pretty permalinks or the default dynamic author id query links converts any author links in your template to homepage links In future versions, we will try to convert author links to be null (strip out hyperlink). And better support for turning /?author=1 to be 404 errors (forcing it) while avoding redirecting to nice authornames too to prevent hackers from discovering admin usernames etc. Compatibility This plugin has been designed for use on SlickStack web servers with PHP 7.2 and MySQL 5.7 to achieve best performance. All of our plugins are meant for single site WordPress installations only; for both performance and usability reasons, we highly recommend avoiding WordPress Multisite for the vast majority of projects. Any of our WordPress plugins may also be loaded as “Must-Use” plugins by using our free Autoloader script in the mu-plugins directory. Defined Constants /* Plugin Meta */ define('DISABLE_NAG_NOTICES', true); Plugin Features Prefix: DATPGS Parent Plugin: SEO Genius Disable Nag Notices: Yes Settings Page: No PHP Namespaces: No Object-Oriented Code: No Includes Media (images, icons, etc): No Includes CSS: No Database Storage: Yes Transients: No WP Options Table: Yes Other Tables: No Creates New Tables: No Creates New WP Cron Jobs: No Database Queries: Backend Only (Options API) Must-Use Support: Yes Multisite Support: No Uninstalls Data: Yes Special Thanks Alex Georgiou, Automattic, Brad Touesnard, Daniel Auener, Delicious Brains, Greg Rickaby, Matt Mullenweg, Mika Epstein, Mike Garrett, Samuel Wood, Scott Reilly, Jan Dembowski, Jeff Starr, Jeff Chandler, Jeff Matson, Jeremy Wagner, John James Jacoby, Leland Fiegel, Luke Cavanagh, Mike Jolley, Pau Iglesias, Paul Irish, Rahul Bansal, Roots, rtCamp, Ryan Hellyer, WP Chat, WP Tavern Disclaimer We released this plugin in response to our managed hosting clients asking for better access to their server, and our primary goal will remain supporting that purpose. Although we are 100% open to fielding requests from the WordPress community, we kindly ask that you keep these conditions in mind, and refrain from slandering, threatening, or harassing our team members in order to get a feature added, or to otherwise get “free” support. The only place you should be contacting us is in our free Facebook group which has been setup for this purpose, or via GitHub if you are an experienced developer. Thank you! Our Philosophy “Decisions, not options.” — WordPress.org “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” — Albert Einstein, et al “Write programs that do one thing and do it well… write programs to work together.” — Doug McIlroy “The innovation that this industry talks about so much is bullshit. Anybody can innovate… 99% of it is ‘Get the work done.’ The real work is in the details.” — Linus Torvalds Search Keywords disable, disable author archives, disable author pages, remove, remove author archives, remove author pages