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By : Kevin Chard, on January 16, 2011 2:00 pm

Change the author slug, URL base

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Adding this to the functions.php of your wordpress theme will change the default mysite.com/author/name to mysite.com/profile/name, however you can change this to user or anything that you would like.

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add_action('init', 'cng_author_base');
function cng_author_base() {
    global $wp_rewrite;
    $author_slug = 'profile'; // change slug name
    $wp_rewrite->author_base = $author_slug;
}

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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=718420569 Zach Levine
I placed this inside functions.php and it did change the slug, however I’m getting a 404 when I visit the new slug. Any suggestions? Thanks

http://wpsnipp.com Kevin Chard
Hi Zach, if you continue to have problems you could try this plugin as you should not have any problems.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/author-slug/

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=718420569 Zach Levine
Hi Kevin,
Thanks for the suggestion. However, I did see that plugin and would love to figure out how to use it without a plugin — I’m building a very large site and I’m trying to cut down the number of plugins.
Thanks,
Zach

http://wpsnipp.com Kevin Chard
Hi Zach you could simply take the code out of the plugin and place it within your functions.php and that will work fine.

Nope
add $wp_rewrite->flush_rules()
at the end of the function it’ll work without 404

Change the author slug, URL base

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