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Disable Author Pages

Disable Author Pages

Disable the author pages
Rating:
4.9
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Active Installations:
7000+
Last Updated:
Nov 28, 2017
WordPress Version:
3.0 or higher
Tested up to:
4.7.29

Streamline User Experience

Enhance your website's navigation by disabling author pages and seamlessly redirecting users to relevant content.

Improve SEO Rankings

Eliminate duplicate content and optimize your website's search engine visibility by removing author pages in WordPress.

Personalize User Journeys

Take control of user engagement by redirecting visitors from author pages to customized landing pages that drive conversions.

0.11

  • version tagging sync github / wordpress.org svn. Thanks to swissspidy
  • fix: notice plugin_settings_link not static. Thanks to swissspidy

0.10

  • DB clean up on uninstall
  • added settings list on pluginlist

0.9

  • fix: redirect to pages. Thanks to Georg
  • changed text domain for translations via translate.wordpress.org
  • added github updater metadata

0.8

  • Updated German Translation, Urls and Description. Thanks to krafit
  • Minor spelling correction. Thanks to tristanpenman

0.7

  • Make it work if WordPress installed in a subdirectory
    https://github.com/staude/disable-author-pages/pull/1
    Thanks to smeric
  • Moved sourcecode to GitHub: https://github.com/staude/disable-author-pages
  • Moved Issuetracker to GitHub: https://github.com/staude/disable-author-pages/issues

0.6

Fix: When I choose redirect to “Profile” page and save, the dialogue reverts back to Homepage. ( Thanks to Tradedog )

0.5

Fix: Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in wp-includes/post-template.php on line 29 (from user BackuPs – Thanks)

0.4

  • Added feature disable only admin author page (from user BackuPs – Thanks)
  • Added feature redirect non exists autor page (instead of default 404) ( Request from Matt Jensen – Thanks)

0.3

Disable some php notices if WP Debug active

0.2

  • Added settings to Options > Author Pages
  • 0000027: Overwrite the author_link (optional).
  • 0000029: status of redirect
  • 0000028: Select destination for redirect

0.1

First version.

Disable select authors

By jh20001 on November 20, 2017

How can you disable certain authors vs all or groups. For example, there is only one author I'd like to disable a page to, or redirect it to a custom page. All other authors I'd like to keep as normal.

Easy to install ! Great !

By mescalytequila on August 17, 2017

Perfect plugin

Working Perfect !

By deanMKD on July 2, 2017

Working great. Nothing more to say !

Works

By paddotk on April 10, 2017

It does what it's supposed to do. However, there are two features that I think would make this much better: - Have a robots.txt addition option that prevents search engines from crawling these links - Make it possible to redirect to the 404 or 403 page. Currently we can only choose 'regular' pages, and have to choose between 301 or 307 protocol (I'm not even sure what for).

great job

By hasanzoeiry on February 7, 2017

it worked good thank you

Great plugin!

By Alex R. (Dreamfish) on January 24, 2017

Thanks for this great plugin!

very good

By khaclamxd on September 3, 2016

Great plugins!
Many thanks

Awesome plugin

By Just a Wordpress User (xrvel) on September 3, 2016

Awesome plugin to discourage all of the spammers.

Great plugin that prevents brute force attacks

By Kerfred on September 3, 2016

Great.
Your plugin prevents the attacks that search the user logins and run brute force attacks.
That is exactly what I was looking for.

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