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1. VirtualGilad
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Good evening, all!

   I have a site (www.SeattleBodyworkCoop.com) that requires author page URL's to look like:

   http://www.SeattleBodyworkCoop.com/practitioners/mihal-ehven/

   instead of the default:

   http://www.SeattleBodyworkCoop.com/author/mihal-ehven/

   This worked perfectly up to 2.7.1 - I changed the value of $author_base (wp-includes\rewrite.php) from 'author' to 'practitioners'.

   However, after upgrading to 2.8, even though I have again made this modification to wp-includes\rewrite.php, I get a 404 on every author (or rather, practitioner) page.

   If you visit the above named site, you will see practitioner names/links listed in the scrolling image banner at the header, as well as in the right sidebar.

   Any thoughts?

2. VirtualGilad
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Anyone?

   I have also cross posted to the "Plugins and Hacks" forum... No spam intended, but I really do need some help on this one...

   Any thoughts/recommendations/hints would be greatly appreciated!

3. Eric Mann
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   If that's the only change you made, you shouldn't be seeing a problem. My first recommendation is to temporarily reset the permalink structure to the default (ugly) query string method (blog.com/?author=15), save this, then change it back to pretty permalinks and see if this helps.

   I've had to do this with multiple sites using customized re-write and permalink settings. If it doesn't work, then you have something else going on and I'd want to take a look at your theme files to be sure.

4. VirtualGilad
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   YOU DA MAN!!

   The permalink reset (read "reboot") approach fixed everything immediately. Coming from a Microsoft background, I suppose I should have thought of a reboot-like technique...

   :-)

   Thanks again ericmann!
   Gilad

5. Eric Mann
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   No problem! I'm glad I was able to help.

6. do77
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hey ericmann,

   do you also have a hint what I can do so my author permalink would not show up like this:

   http://mywebsite.com/author/username

   but instead like this:

   http://mywebsite.com/author/$curauth->display_name;

   Thanks!
   do77

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