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What happens when you disable Edit Author Slug? What other plugins are you using? What theme are you using? Are you using any plugins that handle redirects, or customize URLs? What version of Edit Author Slug are you using?

Thanks for responding Brandon, to answer your questions:

What happens when you disable Edit Author Slug?

Nothing seems to change at all.

What other plugins are you using?

Active plugins are:
Contact Form 7
Custom Facebook Feed
Genesis eNews Extended
Genesis Latest Tweets
Genesis Simple Edits
Google Analytics
Simple Social Icons
Wordfence Assistant
Wordfence Security
WP Smush
Yoast SEO

What theme are you using?
Genesis – Centric Theme

Are you using any plugins that handle redirects, or customize URLs?

I know that Yoast does this.

I notice that Wordfence Security has altered the .htaccess file.

I have also altered it the .htaccess file to harden wordpress.

What version of Edit Author Slug are you using?

Version 1.1.2

If you need to know anything else please let me know?

Justin

I have fixed it…

Permalinks were set as custom /blog/%postname%/

Changing to /%postname%/ makes it all work again.

Not ideal but it’s something I can work with.

Thanks for your time.

Justin

So with your setup you have author permalinks as example.com/posts/authors/author-slug, but you wanted example.com/authors/author-slug?

No I wasn’t to worried about that, more about hiding the author name for security purposes.

I installed the pulgin and once I changed the author name all posts started to return 404’s.

/blog/%postname%/ seemed to be causing the issue the fix involved changing /blog/%postname%/ to /%postname%/

Justin

I shouldn’t matter what you’re permalink settings were. Are you hard-coding author URLs, or using a non-standard function to create the author URLs?

You asked… Are you hard-coding author URLs, or using a non-standard function to create the author URLs?

I don’t believe so.

I figured out the fix as although the settings were…

/blog/%postname%/

The post names were just /post-name/

As soon as I chnged /blog/%postname%/ to /%postname%/ it all worked.

Hope this helps.

Justin