How to Redirect Author Pages in WordPress

There are a few reasons why you might want to redirect author pages on a website:

• If a website has multiple authors, each with their own author page, redirecting all of these pages to a single page can help consolidate the content and make it easier for users to find information about all of the authors in one place.

• Maintaining multiple author pages can be time-consuming, especially if the website has a large number of authors. Redirecting these pages can help reduce the amount of maintenance required.

Code Snippets

This code defines a function called redirect_author_archive which redirects the user to the about page of the website if they are not an administrator.

function redirect_author_archive() {
  if(!is_admin()) {
    wp_redirect(home_url('about'));
    exit();
  }
}
add_action('template_redirect', 'redirect_author_archive');

This code defines a function called redirect_author_archive which redirects the user to the homepage of the website if they are not an administrator.

function redirect_author_archive() {
  if(!is_admin()) {
    wp_redirect(home_url('/'));
    exit();
  }
}
add_action('template_redirect', 'redirect_author_archive');

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