Overview
Compatibility
Installation instructions
Customer support & learning resources
Changelog
Main benefits
Disable author pages
Redirect users seamlessly
Improve site navigation
Enhance user experience
About this plugin
Author: Frank Neumann-Staude
Categories: Content Management
Version: 0.11
Last updated: 02-03-2017
WordPress version: 3.0
Tested up to: 4.7.29
PHP version required: false
Languages: Deutsch (Sie), Deutsch [+1]
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Overview
The "Disable Author Pages" WordPress plugin is designed to improve user navigation and security by disabling author archive pages, commonly accessed via URLs like /author=?. Instead of showing these potentially unwanted pages, the plugin seamlessly redirects visitors to a different, specified page of your choice, such as your homepage or a custom webpage of your own design. This helps in avoiding issues related to unnecessary content duplication and can enhance the user experience by guiding visitors to more relevant sections of your site.
Improved Security
- Prevents potential attackers from gathering information about authors.
- Reduces the risk of targeted attacks on specific user accounts.
Enhanced Privacy
- Protects the identity of authors by hiding their profiles.
- Prevents unauthorized access to author-specific content.
Better User Experience
- Redirects users to relevant content instead of showing an author page.
- Reduces confusion for users who might not be interested in author-specific information.
SEO Optimization
- Prevents duplicate content issues by eliminating author archives.
- Improves site structure by focusing on more relevant pages.
Rating and reviews
jh20001
19 Nov, 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.
mescalytequila
17 Aug, 2017
Perfect plugin
deanMKD
02 Jul, 2017
Working great. Nothing more to say !
paddotk
10 Apr, 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).
hasanzoeiry
07 Feb, 2017
it worked good
thank you
