Fumiki Takahashi

TAROSKY INC.

This plugin add “External Link” section to your editor.
If your posts are used as news in your site, sometimes a post is titled simply “Our service is promoted in famous web magazine” and just having a single link to PR site.
This plugin will add a meta box to save metadata below:
<ol>
<li>External link</li>
<li>Open in new window</li>
</ol>
If you set external link, <code>the_permalink</code> will be replaced with it. The link in your widget, post archive, and so on will refer to the URL you saved.

Taro External Permalink

A WordPress plugin to allow some posts to have external permalink.

Kunoichi INC

This plugin will hide author’s archive. 
If your don’t need author parameter, this plugin may enhance your site’s security from bot inspection.
<ol>
<li>No more <code>?author=1</code> redirection to <code>/author/admin</code></li>
<li>Ignore query var like <code>author=1</code> or <code>author_name=admin</code></li>
<li>Hide user list in REST API from user without permission <code>list_users</code> or <code>edit_others_posts</code>. This capability is filterable.</li>
</ol>
<pre>
/**
 * Filter capabilities to see author list.
 *
 * @param string[] $caps List of capabilities.
 */
add_filter( 'hide_author_archive_rest_query_capability', function( $caps ) {
 $caps[] = 'read';
 return $caps;
} );
</pre>
Besides that, this plugin tries to remove author information from meta tags and JSON-LD as possible as it can.
<ul>
<li>Override author section in oEmbed.</li>
</ul>
Some organization needs to hide author information of each article.
<h4>Supported Plugins</h4>
Yoast
<ol>
<li>Remove <code>meta=author</code></li>
<li>Override author section in Article scheme in JSON-LD</li>
<li>Hide author section in Slack sharing.</li>
<li>Hide <code>article:author</code> in OGP.</li>
</ol>

Taro External Permalink vs Hide Author Archive