/** * Drop the dead author-archive link from the Astra post byline. * * Yoast is configured on this site with "disable-author" = true, so every * /author/... URL 301-redirects to the homepage. Astra's astra_post_author() * still wraps the byline in , which puts * a redirecting internal link on every blog listing and category archive. * Crawl on 2026-09-29 found: /author/garlock-orthodontics/ (8 pages), /author/caitlyn/ (2), /author/matt/ (1) * * Keeps the author name visible as plain text and removes only the anchor. * Self-disables if author archives are ever re-enabled in Yoast. * * Ref: ClickUp 86bc3265p */ function hip_unlink_dead_author_archive( $output ) { if ( ! is_string( $output ) || '' === $output ) { return $output; } $wpseo_titles = get_option( 'wpseo_titles' ); // Only strip the link while author archives are actually disabled. if ( empty( $wpseo_titles['disable-author'] ) ) { return $output; } $unlinked = preg_replace( '#]*rel=["\']author["\'][^>]*>(.*?)#is', '$1', $output ); return ( null === $unlinked ) ? $output : $unlinked; } add_filter( 'astra_post_author', 'hip_unlink_dead_author_archive', 10, 1 ); https://garlockortho.com/post-sitemap.xml 2026-09-14T17:53:06+00:00 https://garlockortho.com/page-sitemap.xml 2026-10-03T17:13:44+00:00 https://garlockortho.com/braces-sitemap.xml 2026-10-02T18:02:31+00:00 https://garlockortho.com/invisalign-sitemap.xml 2026-07-27T18:24:35+00:00 https://garlockortho.com/patient-resources-sitemap.xml 2026-07-28T14:24:16+00:00 https://garlockortho.com/other_treatments-sitemap.xml 2022-11-21T00:22:06+00:00 https://garlockortho.com/team_members-sitemap.xml 2026-09-17T23:09:39+00:00 https://garlockortho.com/location-sitemap.xml 2025-10-05T12:22:14+00:00 https://garlockortho.com/lp-sitemap.xml 2026-09-30T21:33:51+00:00