Assistance Changing Author Permalink / URL

Not sure if this will help, but make sure that if you make any changes to the rewrite.php file, that you go into your admin area and update your permalink structure. This will make sure that your new rules end up in actual use.

Example. I changed “var $author_base = ‘author’;” to “var $author_base = ‘blogs’;” (thanks for the heads up on taht). After I changed this, it broke and gave me a 404, but when i updated the permalink structure, everything works perfectly.

Options -> Permalinks -> Update Permalink Structure

Also. It isn’t the user_login that is technically used for the url of the page, it is the user_nicename in the database. So after signing up a new user, you could go change their nicename.

Not the most dynamic method, but maybe it will help.

just to add to the rewrite.php edit:
if you want to completely remove any base ie: blog.com/name instead of blog.com/author/name
then only one extra change needs to be made:
leave the author_base blank
and then find this code below:

function get_author_permastruct() {
if (isset($this->author_structure)) {
return $this->author_structure;
}

if (empty($this->permalink_structure)) {
$this->author_structure = ”;
return false;
}

$this->author_structure = $this->front . $this->author_base . ‘/%author%’;

return $this->author_structure;
}

and remove the forward slash from here:
$this->author_base . ‘/%author%’;

so

$this->author_base . ‘%author%’;

and you’re sweet. no author base, no double foward slash.

And would it be simple to change the “author_base” value?

Eg I want it to display

url/artist/$author_nicename/

instead of

url/author/$author_nicename/

sweet! I know this is an old thread, but Alex’s last post wasn’t answered. I needed Craig’s little advice there – and it works like a charm. Take jcow’s advice as well and redo your permalink structure (just save it again) and it works like a charm. Awesome tidbit! (Running 2.5.1, by the way…)

I’d love if someone could point that one out to me – ideally without messing around with wp install files.. I try to avoid doing that if at all possible. Managing 20 WP sites and trying to remember which ones have hacks and which ones don’t is a bad idea. Everything’s got to be altered via a plugin or functions.php in my mind..!

Alex – I’ve used this code in a plugin, and it works OK for me:

function change_author_permalinks() {

    global $wp_rewrite;

    // Change the value of the author permalink base to whatever you want here
    $wp_rewrite->author_base = 'artist';

    $wp_rewrite->flush_rules();
}

add_action('init','change_author_permalinks');

This does a couple of things:

1) allows you to redefine the $author_base property in rewrite.php without actually editing that file.
2) flushes the rewrite rules so they reflect the change in teh author base, instead of you having to save your permalink structure again through the admin.

You can change ‘artist’ to whatever you want the author permalink base to be.

Hope this helps.

jeremyboggs, many thanks for this hack. I was installed Advanced Permalinks plugin just to change the author permalink. I haved many bugs in my permalinks with it.

With your hack, all work fine !

Hi All
I have use it but i need to
blog.com/name instead of blog.com/author/name
So i use craigchilds comment but it don’t work.
So if any one have any idea about theis then please reply.
Thanks

@jeremyboggs – that looks great! I’ll test that out now ??

Score! That worked beautifully. Thanks Jeremy.

amitsuman

I have tested craigchilds comment and its working fine with my website…https://www.myloverswish.com.

craigchilds Many Thanks for your valuable input.