craigchilds

just to add to the rewrite.php edit:
if you want to completely remove any base ie: blog.com/name instead of blog.com/author/name
then only one extra change needs to be made:
leave the author_base blank
and then find this code below:

function get_author_permastruct() {
if (isset($this->author_structure)) {
return $this->author_structure;
}

if (empty($this->permalink_structure)) {
$this->author_structure = ”;
return false;
}

$this->author_structure = $this->front . $this->author_base . ‘/%author%’;

return $this->author_structure;
}

and remove the forward slash from here:
$this->author_base . ‘/%author%’;

so

$this->author_base . ‘%author%’;

and you’re sweet. no author base, no double foward slash.