Noindex, follow added to author page, where to remove?

Hello @silvan

Thanks for reaching out regarding your author archives. If you’ve unchecked?‘Do not allow search engines to show this author’s archives in search results’?for the author with the?noindex?tag, enabled author archives and turned ON?Show author archives in search results, I’d expect to see?index, follow.

Can you confirm that you’ve also unchecked Discourage search engines from indexing this site in WordPress > Settings > Reading.? If the issue still persists, please provide the URL of the author archive page to provide some context on the issue.

Yes I was also expecting to see index, follow. So that’s the problem.

Yes also in Reading “Discourage search engines from indexing” is off, the page is live many years.

Not really want to share the live site here, any other options? Or things i can check? What code should i look for?

Thanks for following up @silvan

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Maybellyne,

Checked all and the above. Before even submitting the questions. That’s why i’m asking what code to look for or if it’s a bug.

Hey @silvan,

Thank you so much for your reply.

Hmm. Have you changed the author archives index/noindex settings recently? Can you please try to reset the indexables following the steps mentioned here and see if this fixes the issue?

This thread was marked resolved due to a lack of activity, but you’re always welcome to re-open the topic. Please read this post before opening a new request.

@jeroenrotty Did that plugin and a reset of indexables. Still the same problem, all the Yoast settings should be good. Is there a way to code a force “index, follow”? So i can override it the hard way?

Maybe switch themes and/or disable Yoast SEO just to be 100% sure the meta tag is not from us? Other than that, there are some snippets to output a custom robots meta tag if you’re looking for that – check here: https://gist.github.com/amboutwe/0c71e42aa164238007d7ea88f174a93f

I finally found the problem. And i’m sure it’s a real bug. Not shure where to report but this is de problem:

On the website I only have pages.
But when i publish a new normal post the author “noindex” gets removed and shows everything normal.

When i delete the post again or put it on private, the author gets noindex again.

Can this be fixxed? Let me know if more is needed.

Hi, this bug is affecting a site I work on too. We need authors to be indexed whether they have a post or not as the site provides a lot of profile information about each person. Please can you let me know when this bug will be fixed as for now we have had to disable Yoast. I also found the bug referenced here without a resolution:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/noindex-follow-added-to-author-page-where-to-remove/

+1 to this. I also have noindex on author, even though it was supposed to be indexed.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by lucasbustamante.

I’ve hacked a solution for my case by replacing wp_head() on header.php with this:

<?php
if ( is_author() ) {
    ob_start( function ( $output ) {
        return str_replace( 'noindex', 'index', $output );
    } );

    wp_head();

    ob_end_flush();
} else {
    wp_head();
}
?>

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by lucasbustamante.