WP Custom Author URL

Description

This plugin will allow you to choose a custom URL for your author links, instead of the standard WordPress author page.
This can be useful if you want to link to your own Twitter, LinkedIn or other social media profile.

There are two areas where this plugin can be configured:

Firstly, a global settings section is available under WordPress Settings. Second, under each users profile page.

A user can set their own custom URL on their profile page, and this will apply just to them.
This can can be overriden by the global admin setting, if the ‘Override Individual Authors’ setting is checked.

Custom author URL’s also redirect author pages when directly accessed.
For example if your user is called Bob, and you try to access https://yourblog.com/author/bob, it will redirect.

Screenshots

Installation

From your WordPress dashboard

1. Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
2. Search for ‘WP Custom Author URL’
3. Activate ‘WP Custom Author URL’ from your Plugins page.
4. Visit ‘WP Custom Author URL Options’ in the ‘Plugins’ submenu to access the settings.

From www.ads-software.com

1. Download ‘WP Custom Author URL’.
2. Upload the ‘wp-custom-author-url’ directory to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory, using your favorite method (ftp, sftp, scp, etc…)
3. Activate ‘WP Custom Author URL’ from your Plugins page.
4. Visit ‘Custom Author URL’ in the ‘Settings’ menu to access the settings.

FAQ

Can I set it to open in a new tab?

Not at the moment, this will have to be configured via the theme until I find a reliable way of doing this.

Do you have any other useful plugins?

Yes, I have two other ( completely free ) plugins called WP Dev Flag & WP Custom Author URL, both on the WordPress Repository here:

WP Dev Flag
Woo Custom Empty Price

Reviews

Great plugin!

teck87 November 6, 2022

It works perfectly -> Twenty Twenty-One -> 6.1. Thakns Mr Chris Allen.

Very good plugin

benjamin47 November 23, 2021 3 replies

It therefore allows us to modify the author’s link in order to create a redirect anywhere. You can define a different link for each author, or a link for all the authors. In addition, it also makes it possible to hide the identifier of the author when hovering with the mouse. Yoast SEO (which I really like) allows author archives to be disabled to avoid duplicate content, but unfortunately that links to the homepage which in my view is not very good for user experience. By clicking on the author’s link, we expect to be redirected to a personalized page “about the author” for example. Well, that’s exactly what WP Custom Author URL can do. Suggestion : if there was a checkbox to define the opening of the link in a new tab (in the case of an external link, Twitter for example), and a field to customize the “title” attribute of the link , that would be really excellent ?? I hope this plugin will stay up to date for a very long time ?? Good work !

A brilliant plugin

chaoti November 19, 2020 1 reply

A brilliant plugin. Now you can create custom author pages and have the author link under a post point directly to the corresponding page. This can be set individually for each user in the profile. Alternatively, all author links can be redirected to a single page. I love the plugin. It solves a big problem.

Good work

ellanpix March 2, 2020

The plugin answered my problem.

Works perfectly

kirtikjr March 1, 2020 1 reply

Works wonderfully with the latest version of wordpress

True Author-ity Over My Author URL

Baron94 October 3, 2019 1 reply

I have been searching for a solution to hiding my username when someone hovered over my author’s link on posts. It boggled my mind that Wordpress would allow such a hole in their armor as this for hackers to abuse. Finally, I can have some authority over what information readers and nefarious people can see with a little nudge of their mouse. Thank you, Chris, for developing this plug-in. One less thing I have to code. ??

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

2.1.0

• Localization to zh_TW and related fixes, Thanks to https://www.ads-software.com/support/users/alexclassroom/

2.0.2

• Remove unnecessary enqueue_scripts call in admin.

2.0.1

• Bug fixes.

2.0.0

• Full codebase rewrite. Remove code fluff, restructure code.

1.0.5

• Fix a minor vulnerability in the admin settings page, where a user could potentially insert unescaped HTML into the settings page.

1.0.4

• Fix a file structure error introduced by yours truly, causing plugin activation to break.

1.0.3

• Fix an undefined option value and tidy up comments.

1.0.1

• Remove unnecessary public script enqueue calls.

1.0.0

• First Version.