How to stop indexing author, category, tag without Plugins
Stop Indexing
You Can Stop Indexing of author, date archive, category, tag material in search engines. and stop indexing duplicate content.
How To Do Manually-
>> open your wordpress’s header.php file.
>> paste these code in head section
<?php // Do not index author, date archive, category, tag and search result if( is_author() | is_date() | is_search() | is_category() | is_tag() ) { _e('<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />'); } ?>
>> Then SAVE your File.