SF Author Url Control
With this plugin, administrators can change the default author base in the registered users profile url, and the author slug of each user. Changing an author slug is a good thing for security (if your login is “This Is Me”, your slug will be “this-is-me”, a bit easy to guess). The plugin adds 2 fiel
About this tool.
With this plugin, administrators can change the default author base in the registered users profile url, and the author slug of each user. Changing an author slug is a good thing for security (if your login is “This Is Me”, your slug will be “this-is-me”, a bit easy to guess). The plugin adds 2 fields for this purpose, one in permalinks settings, the other in a user profile.
- Default: example.com/author_base/author_nicename/
- Customized: example.com/jedi/obiwan/
How to edit the slugs
- Go to Settings > Permalinks to edit the author base: “author” => “jedi”
- Go to Users > “Any user profile” to edit the user slug: “agent-smith” => “obiwan”
Translations
- English
- French
- German by Carny88
- Spanish by Oliver
Multisite
- The plugin is ready for Multisite.
Getting started.
- 01Extract the plugin folder from the downloaded ZIP file.
- 02Upload sf-author-url-control folder to your “/wp-content/plugins/” directory.
- 03Activate the plugin from the “Plugins” page.
- 04Go to Settings > Permalinks to edit the author base.
- 05Go to Users > Any user edit page to edit the user slug (nicename).
Frequently asked questions.
Why the fields don’t display?
You probably don’t have the edit_users capability (for user slug) and manage_options capability (for author base).
Eventually, check out my blog for more infos or tips (sorry guys, it’s in french, but feel free to leave a comment in english).