Closed sybrew closed 3 years ago
From TSF 4.1.4, you can overwrite the "no posts" protection.
add_filter( 'the_seo_framework_enable_noindex_no_posts', function( $noindex ) {
// Ref: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/is_author/
if ( is_author( [ 'author_slug', 'author_slug_2' ] ) ) {
// Allow indexing, so set noindex to false.
$noindex = false;
}
return $noindex;
} );
See https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/is_author/.
N.B. Other protections and sitewide "author archive noindex"-settings may still overwrite your return value. This is intentional.
On some pages, like author pages, developers have designated special designs.
When archives have no posts attached, TSF adds a no-index tag. This is for semantic reasons, i.e. that's it's most likely a low-quality page.
Even though author pages are archives, they can, for example, enact as placeholders for the specific company users -- whether they have posts assigned or not.
Now, this is an "SEO security" feature. So, the off-switch (ergo optional) must be archive specific, not site specific.
An old workaround for author pages you shouldn't use (click me)
```php add_filter( 'the_seo_framework_robots_meta_array', function( $meta = array() ) { if ( is_author() ) unset( $meta['noindex'] ); return $meta; }, 10, 1 ); ```