google reveals old default login/username, how do I stop this?

  • When verifying if google got my site map, running the command below showed a long list of info. The one that I found alarming is:/author/(old user id)/

    If you click that link, it takes you to the updated username. *nickname. This reveals an old username that was part of login credentials, and I dont want that public. How can I prevent this from showing?

    ex:
    site:(domain name).com
    /author/(old user id)/

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    Have you considered a plugin?

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/search.php?q=hide+author

    Revealing that author ID really isn’t problem as the security has always been in your password.

    Thread Starter Zaek

    (@zaek)

    When you first start a site it has your username as default, this shows up in a post and google records it. When you change the nickname to make that disappear it is good on future posts, but not past. I’d like to make that past author name disappear, even though the related posts were deleted, the old username still shows up. (mentioned above)

    I do not understand the faith in just the password will suffice, if they have your username then they are half way from breaking into your site.

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