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  • January 16, 2017 at 11:38 pm #734391
    themeacco

    I noticed a couple of my test pages have been appearing in Google recently.
    But they are not linked from any page or any menu.
    Note I’ve also disabled all feeds.

    Could they be coming from the theme somewhere?

    How is Google finding them?

    January 17, 2017 at 9:20 am #734579
    Rikard

    Hey Alan,

    If you publish pages they will be found by search engines, it doesn’t matter if they are not linked from menus etc.

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    January 24, 2017 at 5:11 pm #737837
    themeacco

    Thanks Rikard

    But do you know specifically how the search engines are finding these pages?

    It just doesn’t make sense if they’re not in a menu or feed…

    January 24, 2017 at 5:19 pm #737842
    Yigit

    Hey!

    Please add following code to functions.php file in Appearance > Editor

    
add_filter('avf_set_follow','avia_set_nofollow');
function avia_set_nofollow(){
if(is_page(array(59,79))){
$meta = '<meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow" />' . "\n";
}
return $meta;
}

    This will hide page with ID 59 and 79 from Google. You can replace the page ID’s with your pages to hide them from Google.

    Regards,
    Yigit

    January 24, 2017 at 7:20 pm #737896
    themeacco

    Ahhh, haaa! :D

    From your code, does that mean it was Avia that was leaking the info?

    January 24, 2017 at 7:36 pm #737900
    Yigit

    Hey!

    No actually. Through a filter our framework has, we are just able to allow or to not allow search engines from indexing your site manually :)

    Cheers!
    Yigit

    March 30, 2026 at 7:21 am #1496430
    themeacco

    Enfold seems to bypass my custom 404 page when author names are queried.

    And it’s your 404 page (not the one I created) that reveals a list of all published pages.

    Note, this doesn’t happen when using a default theme, e.g. Twenty Twenty-Five.

    As soon as I switch back to Enfold the problem persists.

    • This reply was modified 1 week, 6 days ago by themeacco.
    March 30, 2026 at 8:12 am #1496432
    Rikard

    Hi,

    Thanks for the update. I’m not sure that I fully understand what you are looking to achieve. You don’t want search engines to find the pages that you have published?

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    March 30, 2026 at 8:40 am #1496433
    themeacco

    Yeah I realize that sounds kind of silly…let me instead rephrase the question:

    In Enfold’s Theme Options I have specified my own Custom 404 Page.

    Yet, visits to mydomain.com/?author trigger a different kind of 404 Page.

    This 404 Page seems to be generated by Enfold (which provides a list of all my pages).

    1. Why is my Custom 404 that I specified in Enfold not kicking in? See Private Content for URL
    2. Where is this 404 Page coming from?
    3. And how can I edit it?

    March 30, 2026 at 1:35 pm #1496437
    Rikard

    Hi,

    Thanks for the update. The page that you linked to is not a 404 page, it’s actually using the blog template and it’s returning an empty query.

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    March 31, 2026 at 5:35 am #1496450
    themeacco

    1. Is there a way to force Enfold to use my Custom 404 page when a query returns no results?

    2. Is there a way to force Enfold to use my Custom 404 page when a query does returns results?
    My website is basically a portfolio website, and therefore there is no need for any user to query anything

    Lastly, please take a look at my private content…

    3. Are there any other URL patterns or query types I may have missed?

    March 31, 2026 at 5:49 am #1496451
    Ismael

    Hi,

    Thank you for the update.

    To handle all those URL patterns, you can add the following to your child theme’s functions.php. This covers both cases — empty query results and valid archive/query pages that you don’t want accessible:

    
add_action( 'template_redirect', function() {
    if (
        ( is_author() || is_attachment() || is_post_type_archive() || is_tax() || is_category() || is_tag() ) &&
        ! have_posts()
    ) {
        global $wp_query;
        $wp_query->set_404();
        status_header( 404 );
        nocache_headers();
        include( get_404_template() );
        exit;
    }
} );

    This will redirect all the content listing URLs, category URLs and feed endpoints you listed to your custom 404 page. It covers author, attachment, post type archive, taxonomy, category and tag routes.

    Let us know how it goes.

    Best regards,
    Ismael

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