Disable Author Pages

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Reviewers say it does exactly one job well, blocking author pages to stop login-name scraping and brute force attempts, with one asking for redirect and robots.txt options.

1. ★★★★★ jh20001

   8.8y 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.

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2. ★★★★★ mescalytequila

   9.0y ago

   Perfect plugin

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3. ★★★★★ deanMKD

   9.2y ago

   Working great. Nothing more to say !

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4. ★★★★★ paddotk

   9.4y 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).

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5. ★★★★★ hasanzoeiry

   9.6y ago

   it worked good thank you

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6. ★★★★★ Alex R.

   9.6y ago

   Thanks for this great plugin!

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7. ★★★★★ khaclamxd

   10.3y ago

   Great plugins! Many thanks

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8. ★★★★★ Just a Wordpress User

   10.8y ago

   Awesome plugin to discourage all of the spammers.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 0.11 version tagging sync github / wordpress.org svn. Thanks to swissspidy fix: notice plugin_settings_link not static. Thanks to swissspidy 0.11
2. — Version 0.10 DB clean up on uninstall added settings list on pluginlist 0.10
3. — Version 0.9 fix: redirect to pages. Thanks to Georg changed text domain for translations via translate.wordpress.org added github updater metadata 0.9
4. — Version 0.8 Updated German Translation, Urls and Description. Thanks to krafit Minor spelling correction. Thanks to tristanpenman 0.8
5. — Version 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 t 0.7
6. — Version 0.6 Fix: When I choose redirect to “Profile” page and save, the dialogue reverts back to Homepage. ( Thanks to Tradedog ) 0.6

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Translated into 7 languages, 5 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-08-16 6K+ → 5K+ down after 4 days in tier
2. 2026-08-12 5K+ → 6K+ up after 2 days in tier
3. 2026-08-10 6K+ → 5K+ down after 382 days in tier
4. 2025-07-24 7K+ → 6K+ down after 236 days in tier
5. 2024-11-30 8K+ → 7K+ down after 245 days in tier
6. 2024-03-30 9K+ → 8K+ down after 331 days in tier
7. 2023-05-04 10K+ → 9K+ down after 1 days in tier
8. 2023-05-03 9K+ → 10K+ up after 2 days in tier

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Disable Author Pages: 5K+ active installs, 4.9★ (17 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/disable-author-pages