I understand, and wonder if there is a way to have author profiles exposed in the site map. I’ll dig into this further. That setting in Yoast was set to “Enable Author Profiles.” I’ll talk to the Yoast folks about this.
The Google Search Console saw the default author slug as /author/username which now shows a 404 error. This came about through the Authors section of the Yoast produced site map. Then as I continued designing the site and adding the fantastic UsersWP extension the /authors/username page began showing a 404 error. I do have both of the redirect options selected in UsersWP. Now that I have a redirect in place the site map shows the correct author profile page driven by WPGeo. Sitemap