Author archive to static page

Hi there,

Sorry I don’t understand the question.

The permalink side of things is all handled by WP core’s Permalink settings and the theme does not have any control over them:
https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/settings-permalinks-screen/

I would recommend checking with RankMath’s support team to see how this would be handled when using a Twenty series WP theme then the same method would apply to GP.

Let me know if I’m missing something here 🙂

Hi there,

for most archive pages, you can use a GP Block Element Loop Template to replace the themes Loop with your own static content…. but archives, such as the author archive that have no posts will return a No Results status code, so they are not easy to replace.

So, breaking down the issue into two parts:

1. Update all author links to lead to your static author page
This can be done with some PHP, here is an example:

add_filter( 'author_link', 'switch_author_links', 10, 2);

function switch_author_links( $url, $user_id) {
    switch($user_id) {
        case "100":
            return home_url( 'author_slug_1');
            break;
        case "200":
            return home_url( 'author_slug_2');
            break;
        case "300":
            return home_url( 'author_slug_3');
            break;
    }
    return $url;
}

Each case contains an author ID followed by the revised page slug.
For example author with ID of 100 gets redirect to mysite.com/author_slug_1

Add as many case clauses as you have author and update the ID and slugs accordingly.

2. Update your RankMath schema.
This is something that RankMath would need to advise one.
It may be they too use the author_link function and the above code will update that too. But I cannot say for certain