Learn in this tutorial how to change the default WordPress author slug to a custom slug using code.
The default slug that WordPress uses for authors is author, so the final URL of an item looks like this: yourwebsite.com/author/author/nombre-autor/.
But maybe you want to change it. Is this your case?
Well, you only need a few lines of code:
Snippet to customize the author slug in WordPress
Add the following code at the end of functions.php or in your functionality plugin:
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It’s that simple.
In this case, the new slug would be professional (I’m sure from reading other recent tutorials you know why). 😉
But you can change the slug to whatever suits you best.
Conclusions
Do you want to change the default author url in WordPress? Now you know how to do it easily with code.
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