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WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 11 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org
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WP PlugIndex currently records SF Author Url Control version 1.2 as active, updated 10y ago and tested up to WordPress 4.5.
Overview
About this plugin
With this plugin, administrators can change the default author base in the registered users profile url, and the author slug of each user.
Changing an author slug is a good thing for security (if your login is “This Is Me”, your slug will be “this-is-me”, a bit easy to guess).
The plugin adds 2 fields for this purpose, one in permalinks settings, the other in a user profile.
Default: example.com/author_base/author_nicename/
Customized: example.com/jedi/obiwan/
How to edit the slugs
Go to Settings > Permalinks to edit the author base: “author” => “jedi”
Go to Users > “Any user profile” to edit the user slug: “agent-smith” => “obiwan”
Translations
English
French
German by Carny88
Spanish by Oliver
Multisite
The plugin is ready for Multisite.
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
author
custom
customize
permalink
slug
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested up to WordPress 4.5
Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 4.5.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to4.5
Minimum requirementsWordPress 3.0 · PHP not listed
Update activity3 Apr 201610y ago
“Tested up to” is directory metadata supplied by the plugin author. WP PlugIndex does not turn an older declaration into a claim that the plugin is incompatible.
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