Hi to the community,
is it possible to change the default username slug to nickname if is available?
By default the url is something like: http://domain.tld/author/(admin) ,
is it possible to rewrite and change to http://domain.tld/author/(nickname) so if a user change his nickname from the profile page the slug it will change also to the new name given by the user?
thanks a lot!
Philip
I see two ways to solve this problem: changing the data that forms the author URL, or changing the author URL. You probably should handle redirects too, so old URLs to user archives keep working when a user changes their nickname.
Changing the author URL
There are two parts to this question: handle incoming links with the author nickname instead of the author slug, and generate author post urls with the nickname instead of the standard slug.
The first part is solved by hooking into the
request
filter, checking whether it is an author request, and looking up the author by nickname instead of slug. If we find an author, we change the query parameters to use the author ID.The second part is done by hooking into the
author_link
filter and replacing the standard author part (indicated by$author_nicename
) with the nickname.Changing the data that forms the author URL
A maybe easier way would be to update the otherwise unused
user_nicename
field in the database. I think it is generated from the user login and never changed after that. But I’m not an expert in user management, so use it at your own risk.Use this plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/display-name-author-permalink/
Though it’s not tested for 3.2.1. I’ve been using it without a problem.
If you receive a header error when activating the plugin, you’ll find a fix here:
http://wordpresscloaker.com/blog/how-to-fix-wordpress-plugin-does-not-have-a-valid-header-error.html
a easy way is the plugin Author Slug
Also you can use small code: