$author_base mod not behaving as expected

  • Gilad

    (@virtualgilad)


    15 years, 9 months ago

    Good evening, all!

    Please excuse this close brush with spam: I posted the below to the troubleshooting forum over a day ago, but no reply… That’s why I’m reposting here…

    I have a site (www.SeattleBodyworkCoop.com) that requires author page URL’s to look like:

    https://www.SeattleBodyworkCoop.com/practitioners/mihal-ehven/

    instead of the default:

    https://www.SeattleBodyworkCoop.com/author/mihal-ehven/

    This worked perfectly up to 2.7.1 – I changed the value of $author_base (wp-includes\rewrite.php) from ‘author’ to ‘practitioners’.

    However, after upgrading to 2.8, even though I have again made this modification to wp-includes\rewrite.php, I get a 404 on every author (or rather, practitioner) page.

    If you visit the above named site, you will see practitioner names/links listed in the scrolling image banner at the header, as well as in the right sidebar.

    Any thoughts?

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