Change author permalink

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1. you need 3 simple functions and hooks

   first change the author base:

   //change author/username base to users/userID
   function change_author_permalinks() {
     global $wp_rewrite;
      // Change the value of the author permalink base to whatever you want here
      $wp_rewrite->author_base = 'users';
     $wp_rewrite->flush_rules();
   }
   
   add_action('init','change_author_permalinks');
   

   then add users to query_vars:

   add_filter('query_vars', 'users_query_vars');
   function users_query_vars($vars) {
       // add lid to the valid list of variables
       $new_vars = array('users');
       $vars = $new_vars + $vars;
       return $vars;
   }
   

   then add the new rewrite rule:

   function user_rewrite_rules( $wp_rewrite ) {
     $newrules = array();
     $new_rules['users/(d*)$'] = 'index.php?author=$matches[1]';
     $wp_rewrite->rules = $new_rules + $wp_rewrite->rules;
   }
   add_filter('generate_rewrite_rules','user_rewrite_rules');
   

   Now if you don’t know how to use this, just copy all of the code and paste in your theme’s functions.php file.

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2. You could use an htaccess rule to rewrite /users/34 to /?author=34

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3. I built a plugin to do this. A friend wanted to hide his author URL’s as he didn’t like the fact they were displaying his author’s usernames. I decided to go one further and allow any user to set their own URL. It redirects their old author pages. https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-custom-author-url/

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