We are using Newspaper template in ecommerce site to sell training courses:
https://casadoprofessor.pt/categoria-produto/formacao-continua-professores/
Everytime a client buys a course he gets registered in wordpress with the “Customer” role.
If I search in Google for a customer name, for example, “Claudia Sofia A M Cruz, there is always an author page result:
https://casadoprofessor.pt/author/claudia-sofia-a-m-cruz/
inspite of the wordpress user profile not having “Author” role. We have deleted the blocks from this template, but google still indexes the page. In Europe this is a violation of GDPR law…
How can we prevent this page from being created at all? There is no place in Theme Panel to disable author template.
Many thanks
Hello!
After every modification, you need to reindex your website on Google. It may take some more time.
Thank you !
Hi Bettina
Thank you for your time. This is not what I am asking.
A “customer” registration in woocommerce, should never create a profile as a blog post Author.
What I am asking is where can I COMPLETELY DISABLE this feature? Is it in theme author.php? is this the best way?
Thanks for your help
Thank you
Hello!
This feature is from the Woocommerce plugin. Please address this issue to them.
Thank you!
Hello, I have the same problem even without woocommerce plugin.
Who ever creates an account on my website (by default as a subscriber), a page “https://example.com/author/authorname/” is created automatically.
If there’s a way I can disable the creation of author page only for subscribers I would be grateful.
Thank you!
Hello,
By default, there is a template that should be applied for all users that are registered on your website.
Now to disable it I believe it can be done with some custom code that can be set in a child theme in functions.php, maybe this article https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/244351/disabling-author-page-only-for-subscribers will help you!
Thank you!
Hello,
I have tried all the solutions given on stackexchange but unfortunately none worked
