Take away Creator Hyperlinks

I am making an attempt to take away the creator pages in addition to the hyperlinks to the creator pages on my wordpress web site powered by Divi.

First, I disabled creator archives and pages with the Yoast plugin.

Then, I used a brief CSS snippet to disable the mouse pointer. It is working accurately, however the balise was nonetheless current. Which means, the search engine bots had been getting a 301 redirect when requesting the doc.

So, I requested some guys on a Divi discussion board and so they supplied me the next snippet

<script>
    jQuery(perform($){
        $(".author a").attr("href", "#");
    });
</script>

So, I added it. Nonetheless, there was nonetheless a hyperlink looping on the identical web page. If I can see it within the supply code, the googlebot can too.

And I do not need it to waste its ressources on looping on the identical web page.

So, then I attempted this snippet:

<script>
    jQuery(perform($){
        $(".author a").removeAttr("href");
    });
</script>

Whereas within the supply code it appears "ok", once I crawl the web site with Screaming Frog, it nonetheless finds many /creator/ pages. However once I discover the supply code of the "origin" pages, I do not discover any hyperlink containing /creator/ or the creator title… (I flushed out the cache already)

I have been spending hours on this matter already. I am open to any thought.

Cheers!