301 Redirect /author/username/ to /profile/username/

Question

I have changed the /author/ slug to /profile/ by adding the following code in the file functions.php:

function new_author_base() {
global $wp_rewrite;
$author_slug = 'profile';
$wp_rewrite->author_base = $author_slug;
}
add_action('init', 'new_author_base');

Since Google is crawling my author pages now I need to redirect the old /author/ urls to the new /profile/ ones in the .htaccess...

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Add this to 'your' section of the .htaccess file (so not in the WordPress section):

Redirect 301 /author http://yourdomain.com/profile