Description

This Plugin replaces user names with 16 digits coded strings.

Usage

WordPress uses the pattern example.com/author/name for author page URLs where name represents the users login name. This means that the login names from all your users are publicly visible which is a serious security flaw. The smart User Slug Hider Plugin changes all author page URLs from e.g. example.com/author/john to something like example.com/author/e9e716def73f76ac. The codes are generated automatically and its impossible to make conclusions about the user names. The WordPress default URLs will cause a 404 (not found) error. There are no settings and no need to change anything. Just install and forget. Deactivating the Plugin restores the default WordPress behavior.

Also works for BuddyPress member pages.

Need more information?

See Plugin Homepage

Shortcodes

The plugin adds three shortcodes you can use in your posts:

• [smart_user_slug] – the user slug of the post author – e.g. e9e716def73f76ac
• [smart_user_url] – the url of the post author’s profile page – e.g. example.com/author/e9e716def73f76ac
• [smart_user_link] – adds a link to the post author’s profile page

Theme Functions

The plugin adds two functions that can be used in theme files:

• get_smart_user_slug( $author_id ) to get the user slug for the author – the parameter $author_id is optional, if omitted the author`s ID of the current post is used
• the_smart_user_slug( $author_id ) to display the user slug for the author – the parameter $author_id is optional, if omitted the author`s ID of the current post is used

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