Using a Custom Post for Authors

  • wynterblathwayt

    (@wynterblathwayt)


    5 years, 3 months ago

    Ive built a site for a PR company that represents Authors. I wanted to make a Custom Post for Author/s but worried there might be an issue with the Author functionality of WordPress, so I ended up making the custom post Writer/s. I dont love that now the archives/URL’s are called writers.

    Does anyone know if I could have used Author as a CPT?, and can I retrospectively change the Writer CPT to Author? Its a new site so I think it would be ok if I have to do a redirect from /writers/ to /authors/ in terms of indexing
    TIA

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    5 years, 3 months ago

    You can have such post type, the trouble you’ll run into is conflicting rewrite rules. There’s an existing “author” rewrite rule to get posts written by the specified user. If you don’t need such functionality, it’ll all work out.

    Note the rewrite rule is for singular “author”. If your CPT rewrite slug is plural “authors”, there’s no conflict. Possibly confusion, but no conflict.

    You could also assign a different rewrite slug for user post requests (“user” for example), freeing up “author” for other use.

    If you fiddle with the rewrite rules or slugs, always visit the permalinks settings screen so WP can update its internal rules accordingly. No need to save anything, loading the screen is enough.

    Thread Starter wynterblathwayt

    (@wynterblathwayt)

    5 years, 3 months ago

    Thanks! – this is a really clear and helpful reply – much appreciated

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