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Recover the /author URLs that WordPress and the import left broken #88

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16 changes: 16 additions & 0 deletions src/pages/author/[author].astro
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Expand Up @@ -10,12 +10,28 @@ import Social from '../../components/Social.astro';
import Poll from '../../components/Polls.astro';
import '../../styles/global.css';
import { getAuthorArticles } from '../../utils/db';
import { getSlugKind } from '../../utils/taxonomyStore';
import Scroll from "../../components/Sections/Scroll.astro";

const pageNum = 1;
const authorData = author ? await getAuthorArticles(author, pageNum) : undefined;

if (!authorData) {
// Most of what misses here is not a person. WordPress gave categories an
// author-shaped archive, so /author/crossword, /author/movies and
// /author/womens-basketball are all still indexed and still linked -- 31 of
// the 68 distinct slugs that 404'd on this route name a section or a
// subsection this site does serve, just at /<slug>.
//
// Only redirect on a definite answer. getSlugKind returns 'unavailable' when
// the CMS could not be read, and sending a real author's page to /<slug>
// during a blip would turn a brief outage into a confidently wrong redirect
// that caches.
const kind = author ? await getSlugKind(author) : 'unknown';
if (kind === 'section' || kind === 'subsection') {
return Astro.redirect('/' + author, 301);
}

return Astro.rewrite('/404');
}

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