seo/get-author-archive-seo returns the SEO Yoast produces for one author’s archive.
Whether that archive should exist at all is a question most single-author sites answer with no.
At a glance
| Ability | seo/get-author-archive-seo |
| Toolset | Yoast SEO — toolset/yoast-seo |
| Group | Yoast SEO › Archives & System Pages |
| Requires | Yoast SEO, active on the site |
| Capability | manage_options |
| Safety | Read-only — changes nothing |
| Repeatable | Idempotent — running it twice leaves the same result |
| Ships in | AcrossAI Abilities Manager 0.0.34 and later |
How it works
On a site with one author, the author archive is a duplicate of the blog index with a different URL. Two pages listing the same posts is exactly the pattern that dilutes both, which is why noindexing author archives is standard advice for single-author sites.
On a multi-author site the opposite holds: author archives are genuinely useful pages that collect a person’s work, and they often rank for that person’s name.
The setting that decides it is in seo/update-archive-settings, and it is site-wide rather than per author.
Author archives also leak usernames. The archive URL contains the author slug, which on many sites is the login name — a fact worth knowing separately from the SEO question.
The computed output here includes the robots directives, so whether the archive is noindexed is visible rather than inferred.
Input
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
author_id | integer | Yes | The author. |
What comes back
| Name | Type | What it is |
|---|---|---|
seo | object | The computed title, description, canonical and robots directives for the archive. |
success | boolean | Whether the call completed. |
message | string | A one-line summary of what happened, suitable for showing a human. |
error_code | string | Present only on failure — a stable machine-readable reason, such as a missing field, a wrong field type or an unmet confirmation. |
Example
Ask your assistant:
Is our author archive indexed?
It resolves to one call:
{
"ability": "seo/get-author-archive-seo",
"parameters": {
"author_id": 1
}
}Worth knowing
- On single-author sites the author archive duplicates the blog index.
- The noindex setting is site-wide, not per author.
- Author archive URLs expose the author slug, often the login name.
- The robots directives are included in the output.
Related abilities
- Update Archive And Indexing Settings — noindex or disable it
- Update Archive SEO Settings — change its template
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