Problem: Click on the WordPress author name link from categories or pages returns a 404 error. The problem is a WordPress problem, and is well-known, although I haven’t found across any solutions like this on the net.
e.g. You tried going to http://bestmagictricks.info/author/Magic%20Tricks/, and it doesn’t exist. All is not lost! You can search for what you’re looking for.
WordPress author page 404 not found
Solution: Using PHPMyAdmin you need to correct the user’s ‘user_nicename’ field so that it doesn’t contain spaces.
In this example the user_nicename is Magic Tricks which contains a space, causing the 404 page not found error when trying to view the author biography page.
WordPress author page 404
Simply update the user_nicename to something such as magic-tricks and the problem is solved.
WordPress author page 404 fix
WordPress author page
If this problem remains in WordPress 3.0 then I might be tempted to write a plugin to scan for and automatically fix this problem, unless of course this is an existing plugin that has this functionality (please let me know if one exists).
(This problem existed on my Best Magic Tricks website.)
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Thanks, Graeme.
Loved this post – and used it right away.
Was struggling to get this fixed on my own for quite some time now. Really appreciate the insight.
Also – I noticed that your blog is running the Hybrid theme. Haven’t come across this theme before – so I’m going to spend some time playing around with this theme on my own. I’m currently using Frugal for my blog.
Cheers!
Thanks for the comment Kapil. Hybrid is a great theme framework. I’ve been working with it on multiple sites of mine and also for clients. In combination with some plugins Hybrid theme turns WordPress into a very powerful publishing platform.
Wow…thanks! I’d given up on ever finding the solution to this problem some time ago.
For some reason, I thought to casually look around tonight to see if anything new has come up since the last time I tried to fix this (months…and months ago)
Was surprised to find such an easy fix :)) Thanks again. And +1 for holding it down with the bare hybrid theme. I don’t use a tenth of all of it’s features on my site, but I can’t imagine using anything else (currently using the new “Outline” child theme)
Hybrid is an amazing theme framework and I’ve been using it extensively on other sites I run, including for clients. Due to a lack of time, I haven’t created a child theme for this site, but I like the minimalist charm of the ‘naked’ hybrid.