The original urls for users look like /author/login/
Is it possible to replace login by user's id?
In my dream urls should become to /users/34/ (34 is user id).
Thanks.
asked Mar 28, 2011 at 22:01
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Why do you want to use user IDs instead of user names? IDs are very user unfriendly.– MikeSchinkelMar 29, 2011 at 4:03
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3 Answers
you need 3 simple functions and hooks
first change the author base:
//change author/username base to users/userID
function change_author_permalinks() {
global $wp_rewrite;
// Change the value of the author permalink base to whatever you want here
$wp_rewrite->author_base = 'users';
$wp_rewrite->flush_rules();
}
add_action('init','change_author_permalinks');
then add users to query_vars:
add_filter('query_vars', 'users_query_vars');
function users_query_vars($vars) {
// add lid to the valid list of variables
$new_vars = array('users');
$vars = $new_vars + $vars;
return $vars;
}
then add the new rewrite rule:
function user_rewrite_rules( $wp_rewrite ) {
$newrules = array();
$new_rules['users/(\d*)$'] = 'index.php?author=$matches[1]';
$wp_rewrite->rules = $new_rules + $wp_rewrite->rules;
}
add_filter('generate_rewrite_rules','user_rewrite_rules');
Now if you don't know how to use this, just copy all of the code and paste in your theme's functions.php file.
answered Mar 29, 2011 at 0:25
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6You are aware an
'init'hook with a$wp_rewrite->flush_rules()can bring a site to it's knees, right? I just had to do emergency debugging for a client using a plugin that did that; it was taking up to 90 seconds to load a page. Commenting out that line brought page loads down to less than 1 second.flush_rules()need to go in a plugin activation hook, or at least be surrounded by anif (get_option(...)) {...}. Mar 29, 2011 at 4:12 -
+1 Mike - Also my concern, i was about to post a similar comment, let's not encourage users to flush rules on init.– t31osMar 29, 2011 at 11:28
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@Mike , @t31os: So you are saying that
$wp_rewrite->flush_rules();should only run once (say on activation) , and the setup should be run on every init? Mar 29, 2011 at 12:00 -
Correct. I've been toying with the idea of using
getlastmod()and an option value to run$wp_rewrite->flush_rules();only once after the.phpfile is changed; that might be a good way to go that would not require creating a plugin. Mar 29, 2011 at 21:28
You could use an htaccess rule to rewrite /users/34 to /?author=34
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1Since there are ways to do this with WordPress plugins I'd personally recommend avoiding the complexity of
.htaccess. Mar 29, 2011 at 21:47
I built a plugin to do this. A friend wanted to hide his author URL's as he didn't like the fact they were displaying his author's usernames. I decided to go one further and allow any user to set their own URL. It redirects their old author pages. https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-custom-author-url/
