WP Custom Author URL Plugin

This plugin will allow you to choose a custom URL for your author links, instead of the standard WordPress author page.
This can be useful if you want to link to your own Twitter, LinkedIn or other social media profile.

There are two areas where this plugin can be configured:

Firstly, a global settings section is available under WordPress Settings. Second, under each users profile page.

A user can set their own custom URL on their profile page, and this will apply just to them.
This can can be overriden by the global admin setting, if the ‘Override Individual Authors’ setting is checked.

Custom author URL’s also redirect author pages when directly accessed.
For example if your user is called Bob, and you try to access https://yourblog.com/author/bob, it will redirect.

From your WordPress dashboard

1. Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
2. Search for ‘WP Custom Author URL’
3. Activate ‘WP Custom Author URL’ from your Plugins page.
4. Visit ‘WP Custom Author URL Options’ in the ‘Plugins’ submenu to access the settings.

From WordPress.org

1. Download ‘WP Custom Author URL’.
2. Upload the ‘wp-custom-author-url’ directory to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory, using your favorite method (ftp, sftp, scp, etc…)
3. Activate ‘WP Custom Author URL’ from your Plugins page.
4. Visit ‘Custom Author URL’ in the ‘Settings’ menu to access the settings.

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   The global settings:

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   User specific settings:

2.0.2

• Remove unnecessary enqueue_scripts call in admin.

2.0.1

• Bug fixes.

2.0.0

• Full codebase rewrite. Remove code fluff, restructure code.

1.0.5

• Fix a minor vulnerability in the admin settings page, where a user could potentially insert unescaped HTML into the settings page.

1.0.4

• Fix a file structure error introduced by yours truly, causing plugin activation to break.

1.0.3

• Fix an undefined option value and tidy up comments.

1.0.1

• Remove unnecessary public script enqueue calls.

1.0.0

• First Version.