Another 404 with author(s) page

  • Resolved chrillebln

    (@chrillebln)


    6 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m fiddling around with the plugin and everything seems to work ok with the exception of the author(s)’s archive. I’ve set the taxonomy name to “Author” and the slug to “author”, and I’ve left “Disable pluralizsation…” in the extras setting unchecked (that’s what I gathered from https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-in-authors-page/, may be erroneously).
    However, it doesn’t matter if I search for …/author/<author-slug> or …/authors/<author-slug>, I always get an error 404.
    The reviews are private, but if it helps I can make them public.

    Thanks for any ideas on this.

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  • Plugin Author Kemory Grubb

    (@w33zy)

    6 years, 2 months ago

    Hello,

    In the context of the taxonomy archive page, the word “author”, as used by the plugin has to be changed to something else. Otherwise, WordPress will be looking for a post author instead of a book author. The word “author” is a reserved keyword used by WordPress to indicate the user who created a blog post or page.

    So to avoid clashes with how the Recencio plugin also uses the word “author” to represent the person who wrote a book, I had to pluralize it to “authors”. These clashes creates a soft 404.

    Also bear in mind you have to clear the rewrites rules when changing taxonomy names.

    Thread Starter chrillebln

    (@chrillebln)

    6 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    I changed “author” to “autor” in the plugin, so that should work. So where and how do I change “the rewrite rules”?

    Plugin Author Kemory Grubb

    (@w33zy)

    6 years, 2 months ago

    Visit “Settings”, then “Permalinks” then save the settings without changing anything.

    Thread Starter chrillebln

    (@chrillebln)

    6 years, 2 months ago

    Great. That worked.

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