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Fixed. Thanks again.

Thanks for notifying.

Weird because block, if not defined, should already have been initialized as an empty string in line 33.

$settings['block'] = get_option( 'javascript_notifier_block' );
if ( false === $settings['block'] )
	$settings['block'] = '';

I would guess that Google recognizes that /author/* URLs respond 404 and hence does not index. Another thing is the sitemap. Since version 1.3.2 the users section is removed from the WordPress built-in sitemap but in case you’re using an external tool you would probably need to do that manually.

I just did.

Try adding this to your functions.php:

add_filter( 'author_link', function() { return '#'; }, PHP_INT_MAX );

Does adding

add_filter('author_rewrite_rules', '__return_empty_array');

to your functions.php remove the permalinks after saving?

Thanks for reporting. I removed the get_comment_author_linkfilter.

I’ve been thinking more about your original question. Actually, there is no reason why the plugin should suppress the author’s name, as its only purpose is to remove links to the author archive. I think I will soon publish another update which would render the line of code from previous post obsolete…

You might want to try adding the following line of code in your theme’s functions.php.

add_filter( 'the_author_posts_link', function() { return get_the_author(); }, PHP_INT_MAX );

I was setting up a new local test site and was able to reproduce what you described above.

I also agree that the users section should not be rendered with the plugin activated. So I will soon publish a new version of the plugin with your suggestion included.

Thanks again for reporting!

I was just creating a test site with a test user on wordpress.com just to see its sitemap. From what I see, there are no users listed. Could it be that the users provider is disabled by default?

Hmm… true, actually. I mentioned it because it appears here:

https://developer.www.ads-software.com/reference/hooks/wp_sitemaps_add_provider/#user-contributed-notes

Good point, thanks!

What about adding this as well …. ?

add_filter( 'wp_sitemaps_register_providers',
	function( $providers ) {
		unset( $providers['users'] );
		return $providers;
	} );

The plugin identifies an author archive by either looking for the query string ‘author’ (e.g. as in https://webxxx/?author=1) or evaluating the is_author() function provided by WordPress. If webxxx/author/adminxxx were an author archive, is_author() would return ‘true’, but it obviously is not recognized as such by WordPress.

Hi @doffine,

one possible reason for the error might be that the hash character (#) the plugin returns instead of the author link, is used in a jQuery without either being wrapped in quotes or escaped by \\.

A good starting point would be to check where your theme uses author links.