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1. talbet
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Would really appreciate it if anyone can help with this. I am trying to remove the /author/ slug in author pages so that instead of:
   http://www.domain.com/author/craig

   you use:
   http://www.domain.com/craig

   I have the following in functions.php:
   

   function set_new_author_base() {
       global $wp_rewrite;
   	$author_slug = '';
   	$wp_rewrite->author_base = $author_slug;
   }
   add_action('init', 'set_new_author_base');

   which worked in wordpress 3.2.1. However in 3.3, this function breaks all pages. Categories, posts and author pages work, but all pages return a 404. I am guessing this is because of the newly rewritten permalink engine in 3.3 but I stuck getting it to work again.

   The site is not live yet so I don't have a link, unfortunately.

2. rbaccaro
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Hi Talbet, I am facing the same problem.

   Could you solve it?

   Thank you.

3. talbet
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Put this snippet in functions.php in your theme directory and then refresh permalinks by navigating to yourdomain.com/wp-admin/options-permalink.php and you should be able to get it working with a compromise.

   function set_new_author_base() {
       global $wp_rewrite;
       $wp_rewrite->author_base = '';
       $wp_rewrite->page_structure = "/page/%pagename%/";
   }
   add_action('init', 'set_new_author_base');

   No guarantees that this will work but thats what I ended up doing. However, all your pages will be prepended with a /page/ slug. It seems that WP3.3+ cannot have more than one post-type that rewrites directly from the domain.

   Anyone know of a better way?

4. rbaccaro
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Talbet, we have our pages links around for a while, it would be a huge work change.

   On another hand, it also is messing with the Archives by date links.

   If anyone has a better solution, I would like to know.

   Thank you anyway.

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