Hide Author Archive

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.

1. No more ?author=1 redirection to /author/admin
2. Ignore query var like author=1 or author_name=admin
3. Hide user list in REST API from user without permission list_users or edit_others_posts. This capability is filterable.

/**
 * 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;
} );

Besides that, this plugin tries to remove author information from meta tags and JSON-LD as possible as it can.

• Override author section in oEmbed.

Some organization needs to hide author information of each article.

Supported Plugins

Yoast

1. Remove meta=author
2. Override author section in Article scheme in JSON-LD
3. Hide author section in Slack sharing.
4. Hide article:author in OGP.

Search “hide author archives” in admin screen.
Altenatively, you can install it manually like below:

1. Upload hide-author-archive folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

1.2.1

• Add some more filters for Yoast and oEmbed(Core).

1.2.0

• Add override function for Yoast.

1.1.5

• Hide single REST API for single user get wp/v2/users/1.
• Editor can see REST API users get to change author of posts.

1.1.1

• Support REST API.
• Fix coding standards.

1.0.0

• First release