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Created October 21, 2015 16:19
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Hide author pages. Redirect anyone trying to view author info by appending ?author=1 to url to the home page. This secures the site by hiding user id's from possible hackers.
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Hide Author ID.php
/**
* Hide author pages. Redirect anyone trying to view author info
* by appending ?author=1 to url to the home page.
* This secures the site by hiding user id's from possible hackers.
*/
function author_redirect() {
if ( is_author() ) {
wp_redirect( home_url() ); exit;
}
} // author_redirect()
add_action('template_redirect', 'author_redirect');
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