Vinicius Braz Pinto

This plugin will trigger a 404 error for all author pages and replace author links generated by WordPress with links to the home page.
There are no settings, the plugin is supposed to be simple and just work for this specific task.

Remove Author Pages

Remove author pages and link authors to home page

Ralph83

When you deactivate Yoast SEO via the WordPress admin plugins page, it does not clean up your WordPress database. In case you like to keep your database nice and tidy, Uninstall Yoast SEO is the plugin you need!
Uninstall Yoast SEO deactivates Yoast SEO, in case you haven’t deactivated Yoast SEO already, and then it deletes all database entries related to Yoast SEO. Which leaves you with a clean database.

Uninstall Yoast SEO

Great idea!

Uninstall Yoast SEO deactivates Yoast SEO and then cleans up the WordPress database completely, leaving no traces of Yoast SEO behind.

Remove Author Pages vs Uninstall Yoast SEO