How to stop generating query URLs on the author page

Hi @poojashreegaur !

I am getting too many query URLs on the author page for every author.. how to stop this from generating. if I am doing wrong please let me know..

I am seeing that those four examples are all for a user called admin. Could you please share a bit more about what makes each one different?

I have also noticed that the part after the & does not seem to be necessary. For instance, https://postinshort.in/author/admin?query-154-page=15&cst and https://postinshort.in/author/admin?query-154-page=15 both take to the same place, apparently. Where are you getting those URLs from?

Finally, URLs were expecting or intending to have?

@mrfoxtalbot thanks for replying

I explain in detail… Actually, I have created a regional news website in the Hindi language. multiple authors are in use… and that is why I have made a separate author page with the help of the 2023 theme template.

currently, I have 3 authors, which are given below

https://postinshort.in/author/postinshortoffice
https://postinshort.in/author/admin
https://postinshort.in/author/hameedsiddiqui

I was expecting that these pages will behave like just categories and tags if I explore older posts. and actually, while I directly go on older posts it shows the normal hierarchy

https://postinshort.in/author/admin/page/3
https://postinshort.in/author/admin/page/4
https://postinshort.in/author/admin/page/5 and so on
https://postinshort.in/author/postinshortoffice/page/2
https://postinshort.in/author/postinshortoffice/page/3 and so on

These are normal archive pages like categories and tags and should not index in the google search console by default.

but Google search console shows (unsubmitted) thousands of query URLs and archive pages from the author’s page only

example-

https://postinshort.in/author/postinshortoffice/page/7?query-154-page=45&cst
https://postinshort.in/author/admin/page/33?query-154-page=72
https://postinshort.in/author/postinshortoffice?query-154-page=62&cst&query-18-page=2
https://postinshort.in/author/admin?query-154-page=15&cst
https://postinshort.in/author/admin/page/26?query-154-page=85&cst

3rd author (https://postinshort.in/author/hameedsiddiqui) has only 2 posts so it doesn’t have other pages for older posts.
URLs for older pages and posts should not

I can disallow it in the robots.txt file but I believe these query URLs should not be generated. because it should behave like categories and tags.

for example
https://postinshort.in/category/news/uttar-pradesh/page/2 and so on … this is not in the google search console
in fact, the Google search console shows only https://postinshort.in/category/news/uttar-pradesh which is correct.

On a news website, the author can be in any number. I have chosen the 2023 theme cz I wanted it simple and fully controlled.
Currently, the website has only approx 1000 posts (including web stories and pages) but query URLs are many thousands because of 2 authors. which is not normal. currently, I added noindex tag for this to prevent these query URLs from indexing. in the past thousands of query urls got indexed which are now slowly removing.
what is the solution for me (I am a non-technical person and have less knowledge of coding)

Thanks

Hi!
Would you be able to open an issue for this in the Gutenberg GitHub repository?
Because at a glance, it looks like it is an issue with the query block or possibly the query pagination block, and this would affect many themes, not only Twenty Twenty-Three.
If not, let me know and I will open one with the help of your questions.

Thank you for the additional details @poojashreegaur. I agree with @poena that this sounds like a potential issue with the Query Block itself.

If you are not familiar with GitHub, @poojashreegaur, please let me know. I am happy to help opening an issue.

Thank you!

@mrfoxtalbot and @poena

thanks for looking into my issues…

I know about GitHub but never raised any issues there. I have raised this time – https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/48251

Please check the issue there

Thanks