samsonw

Grid Archives offers a grid style archives page for WordPress, just put “[grid_archives]” in your Post or Page to show the grid-style archives.
The default config will display all posts in every categories. To display posts under one specific category, input [grid_archives category=”Category name”] instead.
View <a href="http://blog.samsonis.me/archives" rel="nofollow ugc">live demo</a>
For latest update, please check github repository: 
http://github.com/samsonw/wp-grid-archives

Grid Archives

Grid Archives offers a grid style archives page for WordPress.

freemp

A simple, lightweight WordPress plugin to completely disable author archives/pages (regardless of whether the corresponding author really exists) and make the web server return status code 404 (‘Not Found’) instead. Related links will also be either disabled or completely removed.
The plugin does not require any configuration. Once activated, it will start doing its job.

Disable Author Archives

Works!

Disable Author Archives completely removes author archives and makes the web server return status code 404 ('Not Found') instead.

Grid Archives vs Disable Author Archives