Is it possible to remove the /author/ in the user profile URL/permalink?

Do you have a category titled “author?” If so, then look at this plugin: WordPress Supplies ? WordPress Plugins ? WP No Category Base

Thanks songdogtech for replying.

I don’t have a category named “author”, it’s not the permalink structure of a category I want to modify, it’s with the user profile permalink structure, I want to remove the “author”. So that when you click on the author’s username in a post (to see other post from this user), instead of going to:
https://website.com/author/username/

it would go to:
https://website.com/username (like profiles on myspace or youtube)

If I understand correctly, the plugin you are referring to removes the “category base”, but I want to remove the “author base”.

Is there anyway to do this?

Maybe this will help:
https://sivel.net/2008/12/author-permalink-one-liner/

Not sure if this .htaccess entry would work

RewriteRule ^author/(.+)$ https://www.yourblog.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Thanks MichaelH, if I understand correctly, this allows me to change the name of the “author base” from “author” to another name:

Instead of:
https://website.com/author/username/

I could do:
https://website.com/anything/username/

But I want:
https://website.com/username

I would like to completely remove the “Author base”, if possible at all…

Thanks for helping

Noheaven: not using author links on my sites I didn’t know what you meant. Searching around for other people who have wanted the same thing, it looks like that author base is wordpress core and might be rewritten with htaccess, as MichaelH pointed out. Try MichaelH’s rule in your .htaccess.

If I understood, go to admin panel > Settings > Permalink

try to use this structure:
/%author%/%postname%/

don’t forget to use the 3 ‘/’ , when I forgot it doesn’t work =/

Only it! you now can access the authors page in https://www.blog.com/username. Edit the author.php in your theme to show the author’s profile. Create it if doesn’t exists.

try this:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/author/(.+)$ https://www.yourblog.com/$1

I use it in my site http:futborama.com