[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #62974: Add a Checkbox to Enable/Disable Author Page Indexing in WordPress Core Setting

[WordPress Trac]

#62974: Add a Checkbox to Enable/Disable Author Page Indexing in WordPress Core
Setting
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 Reporter:  mahdiali         |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General          |     Version:
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  close            |     Focuses:  ui, administration
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Changes (by audrasjb):

 * keywords:   => close
 * focuses:  ui, administration, privacy => ui, administration


Comment:

 Hello, welcome to WordPress Core Trac and thank you for opening this
 ticket,

 I think this proposal will get more or less the same answer than in ticket
 #57520.

 If we add an option for author pages, why shouldn't we add an option for
 other pages as well?
 This is indeed plugin's territory as WordPress already provides hooks to
 manage this option.

 Here is an interesting read about WordPress Core' philosophy:
 > ### Decisions, not options
 > When making decisions these are the users we consider first. A great
 example of this consideration is software options. Every time you give a
 user an option, you are asking them to make a decision. When a user
 doesn’t care or understand the option this ultimately leads to
 frustration. As developers we sometimes feel that providing options for
 everything is a good thing, you can never have too many choices, right?
 Ultimately these choices end up being technical ones, choices that the
 average end user has no interest in. It’s our duty as developers to make
 smart design decisions and avoid putting the weight of technical choices
 on our end users.
 Source: https://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/

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