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Disable Author Pages

Disable the author pages

By Frank Neumann-Staude·Page·Free
4.9(17 reviews)
·6.0K+ active installs·Updated 8 years ago
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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.

4.9/517 reviews
6.0K+active installs
50K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013

Overview

Disable the author pages ( /author=? ) in wordpress and redirect the user to another page.

Read full description on WordPress.org

Ratings & Reviews

4.917 reviews
5 ★
16
4 ★
0
3 ★
1
2 ★
0
1 ★
0

Recent Reviews

Disable select authors
by jh20001·8 years ago

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·8 years ago

Perfect plugin

Working Perfect !
by deanMKD·8 years ago

Working great. Nothing more to say !

Works
by paddotk·8 years ago

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·9 years ago

it worked good
thank you

Download Trends

Today: 5Yesterday: 8This week: 32Period total: 1K

Compatibility

WordPress3.0+ requiredTested up to 4.7.33
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v0.11
98.5%
Other
1.5%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

0.11

  • version tagging sync github / wordpress.org svn. Thanks to swissspidy
  • fix: notice plugin_settings_link not static. Thanks to swissspidy
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Frank Neumann-StaudeFrank Neumann-Staude
Plugin Info
Version
0.11
Last Updated
Nov 28, 2017
WP Requires
3.0+
Tested Up To
4.7.33
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
6.0K+
Downloads
50K+
Added
Jun 27, 2013
Business
Free

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Developer

F
Frank Neumann-Staude
11 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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