Hi Brandon,

Firstly many thanks for the plugin. Really good work. I use it to change the WP “author name” in the URL to the “display name”. However this is where I have a problem. When the plugin is activated, my dynamic tags for the author no longer work. This is what the theme developer said:

The Username dynamic tag outputs the data stored in the “user_login” column in wp_usermeta, which corresponds to the username. If this tag still outputs the original username, it means the plugin does not modify the username directly, but simply uses other author data to generate the profile URL.

The recommended approach for this problem is to overwrite the “generate_username_from_email()” function (located in /app/utils/security-utils.php), and apply your custom logic there. This requires custom coding.

So the question is does your plugin modify the username directly? Help would be much appreciated ??

Hello.

The plugin works on wordpress multisite?

Hi

I would like to hide the author base from URL

https://www.website.com/author/author1

to just https://www.website.com/author1

Can this plugin do that?

Thanks

Hello,

This plugin has been working great for many years, but are now experiencing an issue where the author profiles show 404 error pages every few days, and we have to go to Settings > Permalinks and click “save changes” for the pages to work again. All other pages of the site work, so it appears to be something specific to the author profiles and this plugin.

Are you available to help troubleshoot privately why this could be happening?

Thank you

Wordfence (a relatively widely used security plugin for WordPress) has been flagging that the js code in the recently updated plugin (less than a week ago) in my installation was different than the code in the www.ads-software.com plugin repository.

When I looked at my WordPress installation, Edit Author Slug showed as 1.8.4, which matched the version number in the www.ads-software.com repository.

But looking at the files in the /js directory on the server showed file modified dates from February – i.e. no signs of an update on the actual files while the 1.8.4 in the www.ads-software.com repository shows as updated only a few days ago.

So I deleted Edit Author Slug and then installed it again, and then the file modified dates showed today’s date. Then I initiated another security scan with Wordfence, and the scan now came back clean. So now I can be sure that I have the same version as the www.ads-software.com repository.

However, when checking the github repository for Edit Author Slug, it showed version 1.8.4. already as released in February, which was more consistent with the file dates on my installation before today’s re-install.

So now I’m a little worried, that there was a change in the plugin code in the WordPress repository, but it didn’t trigger a version update? And it seems inconsistent with the github repository?

Is there any chance that the code in the WordPress repository is compromised? Or is there a more benign explanation for the above observations?

Hello team,

I managed to change the original slug with the name, but not the /author/ link.

I have tried everything: use the roles, save the permalinks adjustments, etc.

any ideas? thks a lot.

Hello and thanks for this important plugin!

However, it does not seem to work properly. I use it in a multisite installation (WP 6.1, SQL 177, PHP 8.1.12) and as a super admin I can edit the entry of a user in the network administration as well as in a network site and set the nicename in the form and after saving it is also displayed as selected. If I reload the page, the old nicename is displayed. There was no change in the database, I checked that.

And just now I noticed that even if I changed the nicename in the database directly, it resets to the WP default (username) after an edit of the user.

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Hello, after updating WordPress
When php is 8, when we click on the link, the page turns white

and WordPress gives an error message

Hi,
I previously had another plugin to create a different name as a permalink. But it hasn’t been updated for a long time and after the 6.1 update there was a critical error.
display name author permalink it was called and was actually quite simple.

At that time, I was shown an author page that also displayed an About Me and my photo when I called up the author URL.
With your plugin, only a list of all my posts is displayed.
I think it’s a pity that it is not displayed correctly.

Is there a way how to load author.php again when I call domain.xx/author/name/?
Or can you give me a tip on where I can fix the problem? What can be the reason?

Greedings

Does not work properly with WP 6.x

Hello, please update
Because with the new version of WordPress
There is a problem in the Avada php7.4 template and some features of the template are not activated properly

Hi Brandon,

It’s been 6 months since the last update.
Can we get a “Tested up to vers 6.x” bump, plse?

thx.

Hi,

Thanks for this wonderful plugin. It works flawlessly!

I’ve a workflow where users are registered as subscribers and then I use this snippet to show them in the Post Author dropdown:

add_filter( 'wp_dropdown_users_args', 'add_subscribers_to_dropdown', 10, 2 );
function add_subscribers_to_dropdown( $query_args, $r ) {

    $query_args['who'] = '';
    return $query_args;

}
add_filter( 'rest_user_query', function( $args, $r ) {
	if( isset( $args['who'] ) && 'authors' == $args['who'] ) {
		$args['who'] = 'subscribers';
	}
	return $args;
}, 10, 2 );

In this case, how can I make your plugin perform automatic update of the user slug to a hash? Actually, I want every user account created on the website to be hashed, be it an author, a shop manager, or any other role.

Thanks

Kind regards,

I’ve amended the base slug to “speaker” and now each page is just returning the 404 page. Have I missed something?

Hello,
I have changed in the URL the user by lastname-firstname. It is working fine when these are in English but not with Chinese. Is it possible to have a fix?
Thanks.

• This topic was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by omahoung.

Thanks for maintaining this awesome plugin!

Hi, I’ve set Permalink Settings>Custom Structure in this way:

/articles/%postname%

This changes all my Posts URLs to /articles/post_slug and Author archives to /articles/author/user_name.

I’ve installed Author Slug and I’ve activated “Remove the “front” portion of the author permalink structure.” option. It works great, it removes /articles/ from the Author archives URLs, but it didn’t remove it from the canonical meta generated by Yoast SEO:

<meta property=”og:url” content=”https://mydomain.com/articles/author/john-doe”&gt;

How can I fix it?

thanks

Hello guys,

I need to update my site’s PHP to a newer version, so I would like to know what PHP version your plugin supports.
Wordpress is recommending a minimum version of 7.4. Does your plugin support this version?

Thank you!!

Hello,
I change author base to user but it doesn’t work. When I go to mysite.com/user/{username} => 404 error.
When I go to mysite.com/author/{username} it works.

• This topic was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by gr9zz.

Hi,

We’re wondering why some of our authors/stockists are being given an uppercase slug. example here: https://www.anniesloan.com/stockists/TRADER-TROVE/

When pulling through the slug using get_permalink() however it takes you to https://www.anniesloan.com/stockists/trader-trove/ as you can see in this search case: https://www.anniesloan.com/?s=trader

Was wondering if this issue is possibly caused by this plugin and if anyone has had this before?

Thanks.

I have the an author prefix defined as /author, but the post prefix appears before it, making it look like /corpus/author/, how come?

Thank you,

D.

Hi,
I am using bussypress and armembership plugin . I want to change the author slug but its not working. please help

Hi everyone,
I just noticed this issue as of the latest update (1.8.2), when accessing the Author’s public profile, we now see ALL the posts of the website and not those submitted by the author himself.
Please advise?

Hi,

First of all, thank you for your plug in! It worked fine until a while ago. I migrated the server to a new host and also changed a few plug ins, maybe that’s helpful to know.

I have made the setting that the author name structure is the nickname. For some reason, some users on our Buddyboss platform have their username (mostly an email address) displayed in comments all of a sudden.
Their profile shows their correct nickname as the username though. The strange thing is that it only happens for some of the users. When I change their nickname back in the WordPress backend, it switches back to display the username in the frontend. Sometime immediately and sometimes when they log in the next time.

Any ideas what could be the reason for that?

Thanks you!

• This topic was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by aiyanna777.

Hi

please add support for this plugin
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/co-authors-plus/

What need to be added is just this:
When author’s nicename is changed, check table ‘wp_terms’ and if there is found ‘cap-oldnicename’ in the column ‘slug’ rename it to ‘cap-newnicename’.

thx

@thebrandonallen,this plugin creates a section in the edit profile page for every user. But I want to hide it from the edit profile area. I have used css to hide it but unable to hide it. Please guide me with a fix to it.

Thanks in advance!

Hi

after I activated this plugin and changed author’s slug to firstname-lastname, when I click on author, I see only posts what he wrote after that. Old articles have no author set when I edit them. When I change author’s slug to “username” I see only old articles. New articles have no author set when I edit them.

thx

Hello
Thank you very much, great
I’m using another program that crashed
But now I use your good program
Just please update
God help you in everything

Hello Team, I am using Rank Math Seo Plugin and Edit Author Slug together and from beginning I am getting 404 problem with my xml sitemap. /sitemap_index.xml link throws to 404 page and redirect to homepage.

I tried many settings provided by Rank Math team but nothing worked. I performed the conflict test by deactivating all plugins one by one and noticed that the edit author slug plugin is causing the problem.

Please Note: Sometime this problem solves on its own and reappears on its own.

Notice: Undefined index: display_name in /home/technopa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-author-slug/wp-author-slug.php on line 92

Notice: Undefined index: display_name in /home/technopa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-author-slug/wp-author-slug.php on line 92

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/technopa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-author-slug/wp-author-slug.php:92) in /home/technopa/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 1296

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/technopa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-author-slug/wp-author-slug.php:92) in /home/technopa/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 1299

Getting this error when creating a user.