WordPress giving 404 error on author.php

  • Hi,

    I am facing an issue with my WordPress website. I can see all the links associated to author pages correctly but the link https://humenglish.com/author/ gives 404, which is making troubles in Google Search Console and preventing the stories from ranking. From the code point of view, I have created an author.php file in my theme. Please help me solve this issue. Thanks in advance.

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  • The path /author/ returns 404 by design. There’s nothing there to view. Only individual author URLs at /author/{username}/ should return 200 with the individual author’s posts.

    This is the same way /category/ returns 404 while /category/{category-name}/ returns 200 with an archive of the individual category’s posts.

    Ditto for tags, etc.

    Every single WordPress site behaves this way (unless specifically configured otherwise with custom coding or plugin).

    There’s no problem here and this does not in any way prevent Google from indexing your stories, else Google would not be able to index ANY of the millions of WordPress site at all.

    If you really want to see something at this URL, just create a PAGE from the WordPress dashboard with slug author. This will be a standard WordPress page, and will not have any bearing on the WordPress’ author archive functionality or template — but you’re free to put in whatever content you want.

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