How To Redirect Author Link In WordPress

Have you noticed our author archive link? It’s redirecting to our about page. Last day, one of our users asked that how we redirected our author archive link. In this post, we will show you how can you redirect author link in WordPress without using any plugins.

When You Need To Redirect Author Link

If you are handling a single author blog or not accepting guest posts, you will need to redirect the author link. When you run a single author blog and using the normal author archive URL, when a user clicks on the link, they will see a 404 error page. To prevent this, you need to redirect your author link to about page or home page.

It will also help you to secure your WordPress blog. Well if you are running a multi-author blog, you don’t need to redirect author link of your blog.

How To Redirect Author Link In WordPress

First of all, go to your WordPress dashboard and theme editor.

There, you need to choose the functions file.

Add the below code on the file and save it.

add_filter( 'author_link', 'my_author_link' );
 
function my_author_link() {
	return home_url( 'about-us' );
} 

Before updating the file, your author URL will be like www.example.com/author/christina. After adding the code, your author URL will redirect to the specific URL.

You need to replace the about-us in the code with your own page link. Check your page from your the front end.

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