Author Permalinks not working for Authors without posts

Hello, I notice on your website that you’ve managed to fix it so that the URL author/name links now work for authors with 0 posts (e.g. https://www.whatifproject.org.uk/author/reuben)

I’m trying the exact same thing, have the template, using ?author_name=authorName works, ?author=authorID works, but author/authorname fails with a 404 – so, how did you do it? Thanks!

Any update on this?

Yes, apologies for not replying sooner. There’s a thread here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/60543 that details exactly what you need to do.

It involves hacking the core (or using a myhack file perhaps?), but it’s a simple edit and I can confirm it works perfectly.