Can I do 301 redirect to Wordpress "author"

[stockriderman]

eg. we have images and on every page there's a "posted by admin" link and when you click on it it just leads to the following page(disregard the domain name shown here...) website.com/author/admin/
and then on that page it just says "Post Not Found"

Completely useless. Would it be better to do permanent 301 redirect to perhaps the main page?
We looked through and are getting about 100 clicks to these author pages( people are clueless, lol) and most then just leave so we are potentially losing clients.

 

[bossofthebosses]

Check this link:

http://techwelkin.com/wordpress-solve-author-page-giving-404-error

 

[stockriderman]

Check this link:

Thank you for your response.
I am not sure it is the same. They are talking about 404 in cases where author name is split into 2( eg. first an last name) which creates WP issue. In our case it's just admin. no spaces.

 

[bossofthebosses]

Thank you for your response.
I am not sure it is the same. They are talking about 404 in cases where author name is split into 2( eg. first an last name) which creates WP issue. In our case it's just admin. no spaces.

website.com/author/admin/ => why this is showing page not found?

is there any user named as 'admin' on your site?

 

[stockriderman]

website.com/author/admin/ => why this is showing page not found?

is there any user named as 'admin' on your site?

yes, the one that does the postings

 

[bossofthebosses]

yes, the one that does the postings

then there's a problem with the user page as it is showing an error. check by the steps given here: http://techwelkin.com/wordpress-solve-author-page-giving-404-error

Yes, it is for the user name that has a space between the words, but it can also help to find the error in your case.