Disable the author pages
As of April 2026, Disable Author Pages is a WordPress page plugin with 6.0K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 17 reviews. It has been downloaded 50K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Post Type Switcher.
Disable the author pages ( /author=? ) in wordpress and redirect the user to another page.
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.
Perfect plugin
Working great. Nothing more to say !
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).
it worked good
thank you
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 4.7.33 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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