Allow the optional editing of an author slug

[dartiss]

At the moment an author slug cannot be changed, although plugins are available to allow this. I believe that WordPress should be able to do this, "out of the box".

Changes to names, whether through marriage, change of sexual orientation or many other reasons, are important to the individuals that go through it. The original slug, by remaining unchanged, is still the link to an authors page on WordPress and may be the last thing an author, post name change, wants to see.

I think, as a very basic change, there should be the option to change this slug, if required (but not a requirement because of how it will affect existing author links). To take this a stage further, if possible, we should also add the option to allow the original slug to also work too.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Duplicate of #39123.

[dartiss]

Thanks @SergeyBiryukov - hadn't seen that ticket (I did search beforehand, honest!). I'll update it with some extra keywords to avoid any future confusion.

[dartiss]

Okay, it looks like I can't edit the keywords. @SergeyBiryukov - could you add 'slug' and 'author' as keywords to that original post to make it easier to find? Thanks.

[johnbillion]

This isn't exactly a duplicate of #39123. The user_login and user_nicename fields are often the same, but not always. It should be possible to modify them independently.

[Compute]

Something that is possible with the plugin ​https://da.wordpress.org/plugins/edit-author-slug/ - could be used as inspiration.