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1. hpatoio
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Hello.

   Author link are created this way

   http://domain.tld/author/username/

   is there a way to change it ?
   I've a blog with several authors and usernames are in the format of name.surname For privacy and SEO reason I want my author link be in the format of http://domain.tld/author/nickname/

   Where nickname is the value the user specify in his profile.

   Thanks

   --
   Simone

2. doc4
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   hpatoio,

   Not a huge fan of altering the core but have you looked at wp-includes/author-template.php starting on line 166.
   

   function the_author_posts_link($deprecated = '') {
   	global $authordata;
   	printf(
   		'<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s">%3$s</a>',
   		get_author_posts_url( $authordata->ID, $authordata->user_nicename ),
   		sprintf( __( 'Posts by %s' ), esc_attr( get_the_author() ) ),
   		get_the_author()
   	);
   }

   Perhaps altering "user_nicename" to "display_name" is what you are looking for. I don't have time to test this right now but seems like a good start. Of course there are several other locations this will need to be altered as well: link-template.php, query.php and general-template.php.

   Just a thought anyway.

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