This function is a backwards compatible wrapper for wp_roles(), which was introduced in WP 4.3. Now that WP 4.3 is the minimum version, our wrapper is no longer needed. Adding this to the 1.5.0 milestone gives a little buffer, to help avoid issues with those that update despite running an incompatible version of WP.

Nowadays goes to 404. It should send to somewhere, my suggestion is to the profile of user logged.

on your add_options_page call in admin.php you hard code the edit_users capability to render the plugin.
Despite hooking the ba_eas_can_edit_author_slug to prevent the actual update of settings, it would be nice to just hide the page altogether for users that don't have the permission.

function ba_eas_add_settings_menu() {
	add_options_page(
		__( 'Edit Author Slug Settings', 'edit-author-slug' ),
		__( 'Edit Author Slug', 'edit-author-slug' ),
    apply_filters('ba_eas_add_settings_menu', 'edit_users'),
    'edit-author-slug',
		'ba_eas_settings_page_html'
	);
}

WP 4.6 will be release soon, and WP 4.1 usage is now below 5%. This will leave 5 supported versions.

Right now, this looks like it will be a soft bump. Since nothing we're doing actually requires WP 4.2+, we can probably get away without adding version checks, but it should probably be considered.

At the time of this writing, only ~2.2% of installs are running a plugin version less than 1.0.0. The new options were introduced in version 0.9.0 which was released almost 5 years ago. This is some easy dead weight, and complication that we can remove.

ba_eas_update_nicename_cache() is a little heavy handed, compared to what actually needs to happen. When inserting or updating a user, WP only deletes the userslugs cache (if on WP 4.5+ https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35750).

In ba_eas_update_nicename_cache() we're deleting the cache, and updating it as well.

We should follow core here.

If a user sets their permalinks to something like https://example.com/post/%post_id%/, any author links will become https://example.com/post/author-base/author-slug/. A number of users have asked about this. Since, you can now control pretty much everything else related to author permalinks, we should probably add the ability to remove front from author permalinks as well.

Prior to the 1.5.0 release, you could remove the front portion of author URLs without having role-based author bases turned on. A change in 1.5.0, causes an early return before the front portion can be removed.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-use-author-as-value-with-remove-front-option/

Hi

Thank you for writing and maintaining this plugin. I use it on this site:

https://theregistrycreatives.com/

Members register and give their name, and business name. I am able to set their author slug as their name, but I would like to set their author slug as their business name (if given). The business name is a custom field. I use gravity forms to register users. I can hook into a new user being activated by gravity forms (created in WordPress) and try and set the user_nicename as business name there, but it doesn't seem to work. Maybe Edit Author Slug is hooking in after my gravity forms hook? What hook does edit author slug run off, can I add a function that runs after edit author slug when a new user is created or a user is edited?

Thank you for any guidance. Much appreciated.

Regards
Mike

See https://github.com/ntwb/eslint-plugin-wordpress

Hi the role based URLs are creating problems in latest WP version.

when we set custom base for roles for example
/author/
/editor/

it creates multiple URLs for a single URL.

for example the user’s role is editor but /author/ also works for it.

Hi

after I activated this plugin and changed author’s slug to firstname-lastname, when I click on author, I see only posts what he wrote after the slug was changed, one from 2017, one from 2013 and few from 2012. Not showed articles have no author set when I edit them. When I change author’s slug to “username” I see only old articles. New articles have no author set when I edit them.

There is important to note, that even in the admin section -> Posts, when I search by author there are also only the 3 articles what are showed on the front end. The older articles just don't have assigned any author.

I checked the wp_posts table, when I search by his id 2 & post_type=post, DB will return all his articles.

thx

I am using this plugin + Yoast SEO and i get wrong urls for my canonical and next link attributes

<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.mysite.de/author/realusername/" />
<link rel="next" href="https://www.mysite.de/author/realusername/page/2/" />

any hint on how to fix these?

I've already tried to resave my permalinks settings and nuked all caches.. without success

Hi

please add support for this plugin
https://wordpress.org/plugins/co-authors-plus/

What need to be added is just this:
When author's nicename is changed, check table 'wp_terms' and if there is found 'cap-oldnicename' in the column 'slug' rename it to 'cap-newnicename'.

thx

This plugin breaks the uploading images on my site. After disabling your plugin it seems to fix this issue. It just started yesterday so I'm not sure what the issue would be. If there are any questions I can answer, please let me know.

Thanks.

https://appleterm.com/

Hi Brandon,

We are using your plugin to turn /authors into /clen (Czech for "member"). Czech is the base language of the website, English is the secondary language.

Now when someone views a member's profile in CZ, it is all fine. But since one of the recent updates, the EN profiles give us a 404. It worked all fine up until a couple of months ago (I was in a hospital blah blah - didn't really have time to reach out).

I had escalated the issue with WPML, thinking it was them. But unfortunately, it is a plugin conflict. Can you help me out here?

Here are some links for you.

All members in CZ: https://www.jtpunion.org/prekladatele/ - click a member to see the URL.
All members in EN: https://www.jtpunion.org/en/translators/ - click a member to see 404

For the time being, I have switched off the language button on the single Czech profiles, since they don't work.

Any heads up much appreciated.

Tanya

how to redirect 301 old slug

example.com/old-author-base/old-slug-user

into

example.com/new-author-base/new-slug-user

it is possible to add the user id to the slug?

Example:
http://example.com/ninja/master-ninja/ID

Hi,

is it possible to add the option to remove the /author/ base altogether so just the author /slug/ is left?

Thanks.

iThemes Security has a setting named Force Unique Nickname. This is essentially a pseudonym for forcing the user_nicename field to be different than the user_login field.

Both Edit Author Slug and iThemes Security hook into user_profile_update_errors with a priority of 10, but because iThemes Security adds it's hook after Edit Author Slug, it's functionality always wins, and means that the user_nicename will always be nickname or firstname-lastname.

It would be nice to integrate with iThemes Security, given that the WordPress plugin directory reports installation numbers of 800,000+. Below is a list of how I see this being implemented.

1. Check for the existence of iThemes Security and Force Unique Nickname being set to true.
2. Remove the iThemes Security force_unique_nicename action.
3. On update, never allow the user_nicename to be equal to user_login.
4. Don't show user_login as an available option on profile pages or in settings.

Hello, I think we can extend it to buddypress "members" slug. I'll fork it soon. best

Hello dear plugin author.

ba_eas_auto_update_user_nicename is hooked to profile_update and user_register.

It would be nice if we could define (even if via filters) that the user_register automatically applies the saved structure, but the profile_update does not.

E.g. when user is registered, that default structure is used, but from that point, updates to their profile would not be synced.

Even better if this plugin could listen for AIOSEO installed, and if so, auto-add an SEO redirect when the auto-sync thing causes a url to change. 🪄

Is there any way to remove it entirely? I don't want it to be /author/username, I want it to just go to /username but when I delete "author" from the input and save, it's added back in.

There are use cases (example: emails as username), where it's appropriate to

• avoid leaking email info via author slug
• avoid slug collision in multiple john-smith scenario (nobody wants to be john-smith66)
• avoid leaking user count info via user id

This leaves some sort of a custom hash-based slug option on the table, as far as I can see.

Your thoughts?

This thought process came up w/ a BuddyPress integration project, so #3 may also be relevant here.

Hello,

First thank for your plugin.

I wonder if there is a way to translate the Autor base with WPML.

I leave it to its default value "author" and I'd like it to be translated in "autor" in Portuguese.

WPML can find _ba_eas_author_base with value "author".
But translating this doesn't seem to work.

Thank you

Hi, not sure if this is the right place for feature suggestions? I wander if its possible to add a functionality that the author-slug for a specific group is just left empty so that the author name comes directly after the url ?

Hi

Warning:require(jncludes/classes/class-ba-edit-author-slug.php):failed to open stream:No such file or directory in XXXXXXXXXXXX /edit-author-slug.php on line 38

Fatal error:require():Failed opening required 'jncludes/classes/class-ba-edit-author-slug.php'(include_path',:xxxxxxxxxx') in XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/edit-author-slug.php on line 38

I have not edited the plugin.
In addition, I would like to know why

defined( 'ABSPATH' ) || exit;

Sincerely yours