Edit Author Slug
Allows an admin (or capable user) to edit the author slug of a user, and change the author base.
4.8(84 reviews)
·100K+ active installs·Updated 10 months agoAs of April 2026, Edit Author Slug is a WordPress author plugin with 100K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 84 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.5M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.8+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: WP Meta and Date Remover.
4.8/584 reviews
100K+active installs
1.5M+total downloads
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
This plugin allows full control of your user permalinks, allowing you to change both the author base (the ‘/author/’ portion of the author URLs), and the author slug (defaults to the username of the author). You can set the author base globally, or you can set it to be user-specific based on a user’s role. You now have the power to craft the perfect URL structure for you Author pages.
WordPress default structure http://example.com/author/username/.
Edit Author Slug allows for http://example.com/ninja/master-ninja/.
Using a role-based author base would allow for http://example.com/ida/master-splinter/ (for an Administrator Role), or http://example.com/koga/leonardo/ (for a Subscriber Role).
Development of this plugin takes place on GitHub. Pull requests are always welcome…
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Ratings & Reviews
4.884 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Not working with RankMath
by djbuell·1 month ago
Looks like it works, until you update the user profile, it reverts back to the WP username.
Thank you!
by angeljs·10 months ago
Finally a way to hide my admin username from across the site, I love this plugin!
very good
by phuctran28899·1 year ago
very good
Just works
by sunnyp81·3 years ago
Just works
Download Trends
Today: 256Yesterday: 361This week: 2KPeriod total: 166K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.8+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.9
77.2%
v1.8
16.4%
Other
6.4%
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Changelog
1.9.2
- Release date: 2025-05-27
- Bumps “Tested up to” version to 6.8
- Fixes issue where
load_plugin_textdomainwas called too early. - Update dependency package versions
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