WP Custom Author URL
Set a custom URL for your author name link, on a global or author-specific basis. Also redirects all author pages.
5(8 reviews)
·5.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, WP Custom Author URL is a WordPress author plugin with 5.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 8 reviews. It has been downloaded 27K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.1+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Edit Author Slug.
5/58 reviews
5.0K+active installs
27K+total downloads
7 yearssince 2019
Overview
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.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Great plugin!
by teck87·3 years ago
It works perfectly -> Twenty Twenty-One -> 6.1. Thakns Mr Chris Allen.
Very good plugin
by benjamin47·4 years ago·3 replies
It therefore allows us to modify the author’s link in order to create a redirect anywhere. You can define a different link for each author, or a link for all the authors.
In addition, it also makes it possible to hide the identifier of the author when hovering with the mouse.
Yoast SEO (which I really like) allows author archives to be disabled to avoid duplicate content, but unfortunately that links to the homepage which in my view is not very good for user experience. By clicking on the author’s link, we expect to be redirected to a personalized page “about the author” for example. Well, that’s exactly what WP Custom Author URL can do.
Suggestion : if there was a checkbox to define the opening of the link in a new tab (in the case of an external link, Twitter for example), and a field to customize the “title” attribute of the link , that would be really excellent 🙂
I hope this plugin will stay up to date for a very long time 😉
Good work !
A brilliant plugin
by chaoti·5 years ago·1 reply
A brilliant plugin. Now you can create custom author pages and have the author link under a post point directly to the corresponding page. This can be set individually for each user in the profile. Alternatively, all author links can be redirected to a single page. I love the plugin. It solves a big problem.
Good work
by ellanpix·6 years ago
The plugin answered my problem.
Works perfectly
by kirtikjr·6 years ago·1 reply
Works wonderfully with the latest version of wordpress
Download Trends
Today: 3Yesterday: 8This week: 38Period total: 3K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0.1+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.1
86.9%
v2.0
8.1%
v1.0
5.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.1.0
- Localization to zh_TW and related fixes, Thanks to https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexclassroom/
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