Disable Astra theme in the author link

Astra theme: The last space you may have noticed changes on the iGuRu.gr page. Yes, that's right, because we changed the theme. We were using it genesis with a Custom child, whereas now we use Astra, with a custom child as well.

We chose the Astra theme because it is light, fast with many customization options, but also because it is SEO friendly. As for the configuration, we changed the lights, with additional php and css code to bring it more or less to the appearance of the old Genesis theme.

One of the changes we made to Astra as soon as we tested it for the first time was to unlink the user from the publications, as we consider it to be an additional security risk.

What I mean:

Almost all WordPress themes have a link associated with the name of the columnist of each publication. This link leads to a page with all the articles of the author. But it displays the login name publicly.

for example

https://iguru.gr/author/to_onoma_syndesis/

Why is it a risk? All WordPress websites have one default login page, that if you know her you can easily carry out brute force attacks. This link makes things easier for the hacker as it gives the dish the login name of the columnist. So you only need to search for the password.

So because we have as a starting point to make things a little more difficult for any would-be hacker in all our themes we disable this link.

Let's see how it is done in Astra.

Add the following code to the child's functions.php which usesyou:

add_filter ('astra_post_author_output', 'call_back'); function call_back () author $ author_info_array = sprintf ('
% 1 $ s
', sprintf ('
 
 
% 1 $ s
 
 
 
% 2 $ s
 
  
% 4 $ s
  
% 5 $ s
 
 
 
', esc_html __ (' About The Author ',' astra-addon '), get_avatar (get_the_author_meta (' email '), 100),' ', esc_html (get_the_author ()), wp_kses_post (get_the_author_meta (' description ')), astra_attr ('author-url-info', array ('class' =>' ',)), astra_attr (' author-name-info ', array (' class' => '',))), astra_attr ('author -item-info ', array (' class' => '',)), astra_attr ('author-desc-info', array ('class' =>' ',))); return $ author_info_array; } add_filter ('astra_post_author', 'author_call_back', 15); function author_call_back () {ob_start (); echo ' 'posted-by vcard author',)); echo '>'; // Translators: Author Name. ?>
		 'url fn n',)); ?>>
			 'author-name',)); ?>>
		
	
	

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