Turn off date archives
Date archives (/2024/05/) redirect to the home page. Most sites never link to them, but search engines still find and crawl them.
<?php
add_action(
'template_redirect',
static function () {
if ( is_date() ) {
wp_safe_redirect( home_url( '/' ), 301 );
exit;
}
}
);
Good to know
Don’t use it if your permalinks contain the date (/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/): posts still work, but the date parts of their addresses go to the home page.
In these packs
- SEO basics: Meta descriptions, social sharing tags, article structured data and cleaner indexing, for sites without an SEO plugin.
- Turn off more: More features you may not need: sitemaps, trackbacks, automatic updates, pattern suggestions.