Works exactly as advertised

This is a must have, no-frills plugin for any member site where you have member profiles. By default WordPress uses the username as the slug for the author.php-based profile – a big security issue. This plugin does exactly what it says it should – uses the user ID instead, and lets you change the base slug as well.

I have never used such a new plugin before or one with less than thousands of instalments, and no reviews, but decided to take a chance as it was just what I was looking for. I did find a couple of issues, and the author responded right away with tips to solve one and a new version to fix the others and make the plugin even better.

Maybe one day this will become core. It should be.