How WordPress handles author URL’s

Hi @ante1974, the URL for the author is based on the user’s username.
That can’t be changed:

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But the good news is that you can create a new user/author with the username you want and after that remove the old one and attribute all the content created by the removed user to the new user.

Let me know if that works for you.

Hi @mmaattiiaass thanks for this, it is a useful workaround.

As an aside I know you can’t change usernames, but the part of the URL that I am referring to that contains, in my use case, an authors name is changeable.

In WPAdmin, on the User page there is a setting “Display name publicly as”, not sure if this is specific to my theme or a plugin or as standard in WordPress. Anyway, “Display name publicly as” links to a drop-down menu that allows you to select the username or the various combinations of the “real name” related to a specific username. If I select the firstname surname type option then the URL’s for all my other users apart from admin display firstnamelastname.

Anyway the workaround you suggested will work and I will use that going forward.

Many thanks.

You can change username in different ways (the best is by changing the user_login field on the wp_users table). But you have not clarified how to solve the 2-2-2-2 problem. I have the same and it keeps coming up even if I change the username.

..silly me, one must change user_nicename from mySql, as it’s not the same as a username (user_login) or display_name. Resolved!