Title: Author base doesn’t work.
Last modified: August 20, 2021

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# Author base doesn’t work.

 *  [gr9zz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gr9zz/)
 * (@gr9zz)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-base-doesnt-work/)
 * Hello,
    I change author base to user but it doesn’t work. When I go to mysite.
   com/user/{username} => 404 error. When I go to mysite.com/author/{username} it
   works.
    -  This topic was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by [gr9zz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gr9zz/).

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