Title: Edit Author Slug
Author: Brandon Allen
Published: <strong>Novanm 27, 2009</strong>
Last modified: Me 27, 2025

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# Edit Author Slug

 By [Brandon Allen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cnorris23/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/edit-author-slug.1.9.2.zip)

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 * [Reviews](https://hat.wordpress.org/plugins/edit-author-slug/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://hat.wordpress.org/plugins/edit-author-slug/#installation)
 * [Development](https://hat.wordpress.org/plugins/edit-author-slug/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/edit-author-slug/)

## Description

This plugin allows full control of your user permalinks, allowing you to change 
both the author base (the ‘/author/’ portion of the author URLs), and the author
slug (defaults to the username of the author). You can set the author base globally,
or you can set it to be user-specific based on a user’s role. You now have the power
to craft the perfect URL structure for you Author pages.

WordPress default structure _http://example.com/author/username/_.

Edit Author Slug allows for _http://example.com/ninja/master-ninja/_.

Using a role-based author base would allow for _http://example.com/ida/master-splinter/_(
for an Administrator Role), or _http://example.com/koga/leonardo/_ (for a Subscriber
Role).

Development of this plugin takes place on [GitHub](https://github.com/thebrandonallen/edit-author-slug/).
Pull requests are always welcome!

Translations should be submitted to [Translate WordPress](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/edit-author-slug).

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Settings
 * [[
 * Individual user author slug

## Installation

 1. Upload `edit-author-slug` folder to your WordPress plugins directory (typically‘
    wp-content/plugins’)
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Go to Users > Your Profile, or Users > All Users > (username), and edit the author
    slug.
 4. Click “Update Profile” or “Update User”
 5. Go to Settings > Edit Author Slug to edit settings
 6. Click “Save Changes”

## FAQ

### What is an author slug?

On standard WordPress installs, it’s the final part of an author permalink.
 e.g.–
https://example.com/author/author-slug/

In relation to WordPress internals, the author slug is the same as the `user_nicename`
field found in a `WP_User` object, or the users table in the database.

### Will my changes persist if I deactivate or delete the Edit Author Slug plugin?

It depends.

Changing a user’s author slug is permanent, as this changes the user’s `user_nicename`
field in the database.

If you’ve changed the author base, deactivating or deleting the plugin will revert
your author base back to `author`.

### Why can’t I edit my Author Slug?

Make sure you are an admin, or have been assigned the `edit_users` capability.

### Why isn’t my new Author Slug working?

While I’ve made every attempt to prevent this, I may have missed a spot or two. 
First things first, go to Settings > Permalinks and click “Save Changes.” You don’t
need to actually need to make any changes for this to work. Hopefully, this should
kick your new Author Slug into gear.

If this doesn’t work, make sure you don’t have any slug conflicts from other posts/
pages/plugins/permalink setting/etc. If you’re still experiencing the issue, feel
free to post a support request in the forums.

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Not working with RankMath](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-with-rankmath-2/)󠁿

 [djbuell](https://profiles.wordpress.org/djbuell/) fevriye 11, 2026

Looks like it works, until you update the user profile, it reverts back to the WP
username.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Thank you!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thank-you-3645/)󠁿

 [angeljs](https://profiles.wordpress.org/angeljs/) Jen 8, 2025

Finally a way to hide my admin username from across the site, I love this plugin!

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[works](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-2235/)󠁿

 [Tibo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tibhel/) Me 20, 2025

works

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[very good](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-good-7349/)󠁿

 [phuctran28899](https://profiles.wordpress.org/phuctran28899/) Jiyè 9, 2024

very good

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Just works](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/just-works-730/)󠁿

 [sunnyp81](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sunnyp81/) Desanm 6, 2022

Just works

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Not working with WP 6.0.2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-with-wp-6-0-2-2/)󠁿

 [kinngjatt](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kinngjatt/) Septanm 9, 2022

Custom Role based URL is not working with WP 6.0.2

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## Contributors & Developers

“Edit Author Slug” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Brandon Allen ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cnorris23/)
 *   [ Brandon Allen ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/thebrandonallen/)

“Edit Author Slug” has been translated into 13 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/edit-author-slug/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Edit Author Slug” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/edit-author-slug)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/edit-author-slug/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/edit-author-slug/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/edit-author-slug/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/edit-author-slug/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.9.2

 * Release date: 2025-05-27
 * Bumps “Tested up to” version to 6.8
 * Fixes issue where `load_plugin_textdomain` was called too early.
 * Update dependency package versions

#### 1.9.1

 * Release date: 2024-10-14
 * Bumps “Tested up to” version to 6.6
 * Bumps minimum required PHP version to 7.4
 * Bumps minimum required WP version to 5.8
 * Update dependency package versions

#### 1.9.0

 * Release date: 2023-10-17
 * Bumps “Tested up to” version to 6.4
 * Bumps minimum required PHP version to 7.0
 * Bumps minimum required WP version to 5.5
 * Update dependency package versions

#### 1.8.4

 * Release date: 2022-02-13
 * Bumps “Tested up to” version to 5.9

#### 1.8.3

 * Release date: 2021-08-07
 * Bumps “Tested up to” version to 5.8
 * Improves string translations and adds some missing strings that couldn’t, previously
   be translated. Props @alexclassroom

#### 1.8.2

 * Release date: 2021-06-01
 * Bumps “Tested up to” version to 5.7

#### 1.8.1

 * Release date: 2020-12-14
 * Corrects settings page notice link to actually link to the current user’s profile
   page.

#### 1.8.0

 * Release date: 2020-12-14
 * Bumps “Tested up to” version to 5.6
 * Adds a notice to the settings page reminding you that you can edit your author
   slug on your profile page.
 * Drops support for IE 10 on the settings page.

#### 1.7.0

 * Release date: 2020-06-07
 * Bumps the minimum required version to WordPress 4.9.
 * Bumps “Tested up to” version to 5.4.1
 * Fixes an error that may occur with some install of iThemes Security

#### 1.6.1

 * Release date: 2019-09-05
 * Removes pre-WP 4.5 cache busting. The minimum version has been 4.7 for quite 
   some time, and, as of WP 4.5, the cache busting was redundant.
 * Don’t show the options page if `ba_eas_can_edit_author_slug()` returns `false`.
 * Bumps “Tested up to” version to 5.2.3

#### 1.6.0

 * Release date: 2018-10-11
 * Minimum required WordPress version is now 4.7
 * Settings page JS no longer depends on jQuery (switched to plain js)
 * Add compatibility for iThemes Force Unique Nickname WordPress Tweak
 * Add a hash string as an author slug option
 * Minimum PHP version has been bumped to 5.3. This is a soft bump, meaning, the
   plugin should still run on PHP 5.2. However, PHP 5.2 is no longer, officially,
   supported.

#### 1.5.2

 * Release date: 2017-06-21
 * Fixed a regression where those using the default author based couldn’t remove
   front unless they were also using role-based author bases. Props @thatherton.

#### 1.5.1

 * Release date: 2017-06-02
 * Fix PHP notice when manually updating a user profile. Props @mydigitalsauce.

#### 1.5.0

 * Release date: 2017-05-30
 * Bumped minimum required WordPress version to 4.4.
 * Refactored bulk upgrading again. The original fix made things better, but not
   as good as it could be. This new refactoring drastically improves performance
   and memory usage.
 * This release is primarily an under-the-hood release with a number of optimizations
   and performance improvements.

#### 1.4.1

 * Release date: 2017-04-24
 * Fix failing string replacement in bulk update message.

#### 1.4.0

 * Release date: 2017-04-04
 * Lots of code cleanup to better adhere to WordPress Coding Standards.
 * Improved performance of `ba_eas_sanitize_author_base()` by preventing unnecessary
   processing.
 * Fixed an issue where the demo author permalink URL could have a double slash.
 * Improvements to bulk update for sites with a large user base.

#### 1.3.0

 * Release date: 2017-01-25
 * Fix a potential bug where a sanitized author base could end up with double forward
   slashes.
 * Introduce the `%ba_eas_author_role%` permalink structure tag. This can be used
   to customize role-based author bases.
 * Bonus: All alternative facts are now free!

#### 1.2.1

 * Release date: 2016-02-29
 * Fixed stupid error where the default user nicename wasn’t being properly retrieved
   from the database. Sorry about that 🙁
 * Unfortunately, some unicorns were lost during the development of this release,
   but they are a resilient creature.

#### 1.2.0

 * Release date: 2016-02-01
 * Added the ability to use forward slashes in the author base.
 * Improved display on the settings page, and storing, of role slugs.
 * Packaged translations are now removed. Anyone interested in translating the plugin
   should do so at [Translate WordPress](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/edit-author-slug).
 * EXPERIMENTAL: Added the ability to set the author slug to a user’s numeric user
   id. While I have tested this, I can’t be sure that no one’s site will implode.
   If all goes well, the experimental tag will be removed in the next major release(
   or two).
 * Added ability to remove the front portion of author links.
 * Accessibility improvements to the settings page.

#### Full Changelog

 * https://github.com/thebrandonallen/edit-author-slug/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

## Meta

 *  Version **1.9.2**
 *  Last updated **11 months ago**
 *  Active installations **100,000+**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.8.5**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 *  Languages
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 * Tags
 * [author](https://hat.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/author/)[author base](https://hat.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/author-base/)
   [author slug](https://hat.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/author-slug/)[nicename](https://hat.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/nicename/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://hat.wordpress.org/plugins/edit-author-slug/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.8 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Brandon Allen ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cnorris23/)
 *   [ Brandon Allen ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/thebrandonallen/)

## Support

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