SF Author Url Control
Allows administrators or capable users to change the users profile url.
5(11 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 10 years agoAs of April 2026, SF Author Url Control is a WordPress slug plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 11 reviews. It has been downloaded 21K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 10 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 6% this week. Top alternative: Remove CPT base.
5/511 reviews
1.0K+active installs
21K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
With this plugin, administrators can change the default author base in the registered users profile url, and the author slug of each user.
Changing an author slug is a good thing for security (if your login is “This Is Me”, your slug will be “this-is-me”, a bit easy to guess).
The plugin adds 2 fields for this purpose, one in permalinks settings, the other in a user profile.
- Default: example.com/author_base/author_nicename/
- Customized: example.com/jedi/obiwan/
How to edit the slugs
- Go to Settings > Permalinks to edit the author base: “author” => “jedi”
- Go to Users > “Any user profile” to edit the user slug: “agent-smith” => “obiwan”
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Recent Reviews
Great observation to this failure WP. I did video about this plugin this week.
by Joan Morci·9 years ago
Great work to make this plugin simple and intuitive way.
I did an article written about this plugin in 2014, but took a time I’m going over old articles and video making to further facilitate things who don´t understand importance of some plugins.
This plugin does a very important job. And I don´t understand how WordPress standard doesn´t solve this.
The video is in Spanish:
– WordPress: security failure Author URL (solution)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3n8PEvDPu4
Article in Spanish:
WordPress: security failure Author URL (solution)
http://joanmorci.com/fallo-seguridad-wordpress-author/
Greetings from Spain & thanks for this plugin! 🙂
Excellent !!!
by Fredo73·9 years ago
Super plugin
Pile ce que je cherchais.
Associé à “Move Login” et “SX User Name Security”, c’est nickel !!!
Merci
Genuis
by neptun26·10 years ago
Thanks man for the work you’ve done. I’ve been searching on the net since many days to fix what i considered a security breach. Your plugin did the work in a few seconds.
Thanks one more time
Just what I needed
by afcab·11 years ago·1 reply
Simple and effective – should be a native function !
Thanks a lot
Another piece to a more secure WP
by YogieAnamCara·11 years ago
Along with SX User Name Security, SF Author Url Control makes WP a bit more secure!
Download Trends
Today: 3Yesterday: 8This week: 34Period total: 2K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 4.5.33 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.2
95.1%
v1.1
4.9%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.2
- 2016/04/03
- Tested with WP 4.5.
- Numerous small code improvements.
- Now the link to SX User Name Security displays the plugin infos window instead of installing it directly.
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