Title: Change Author Permalink
Last modified: August 31, 2017

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# Change Author Permalink

 *  Resolved [wfeu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfeu/)
 * (@wfeu)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-author-permalink/)
 * Hi on my blog posts when I mouse over the Author Name, it shows a link like [http://www.wordpress.com/author/actualuserloginname/](http://www.wordpress.com/author/actualuserloginname/)
   showing the users-authors actual log in name in the link-url.
 * Id like to change that link to point to [http://www.wordpress.com/contact/](http://www.wordpress.com/contact/)
   hiding the actual log in name for security reasons.
 * Can you point to in the right direction thanks ?

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 *  Theme Author [Tomas Mackevicius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomasm/)
 * (@tomasm)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-author-permalink/#post-9463919)
 * This is not theme related.
 * Overall, the best way is to never use an admin account for posting – create separate
   user account for your posts.
 * Then you can use .htaccess file in the wp-admin dir to allow only connections
   from selected IP addresses, this way bad guys will not ever get to the important
   stuff/
 * You can also check these plugins:
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-name-author-permalink/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-name-author-permalink/)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/Hide-Username-Front-Side/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/Hide-Username-Front-Side/)
 * I found info about them in:
 * [https://athemes.com/forums/topic/remove-author-link-reveals-wp-login-name/](https://athemes.com/forums/topic/remove-author-link-reveals-wp-login-name/)
 * [https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/5742/change-the-author-slug-from-username-to-nickname#answer-6527](https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/5742/change-the-author-slug-from-username-to-nickname#answer-6527)
 *  Theme Author [Tomas Mackevicius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomasm/)
 * (@tomasm)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-author-permalink/#post-9480957)
 * Another related info:
 * > WordPress’ handbook has a section on reporting security vulnerabilities that
   > explains why disclosures of usernames or user IDs is not a security issue:
   > The WordPress project doesn’t consider usernames or user ids to be private 
   > or secure information. A username is part of your online identity. It is meant
   > to identify, not verify, who you are saying you are. Verification is the job
   > of the password.
   > Generally speaking, people do not consider usernames to be secret, often sharing
   > them openly. Additionally, many major online establishments — such as Google
   > and Facebook — have done away with usernames in favor of email addresses, which
   > are shared around constantly and freely. WordPress has also moved this way,
   > allowing users to log in with an email address or username since version 4.5.
   > WordPress Core Security Team Lead Aaron Campbell clarified this section of 
   > the handbook to confirm that the users endpoint is intended to be an open API
   > endpoint that serves public data.
   > “It does in fact include usernames and user IDs (among other things) for users
   > that have published posts in a post type that is set up to use the API, but
   > all the data is considered public,” Campbell said.
 * [https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/testing/reporting-security-vulnerabilities/#why-are-disclosures-of-usernames-or-user-ids-not-a-security-issue](https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/testing/reporting-security-vulnerabilities/#why-are-disclosures-of-usernames-or-user-ids-not-a-security-issue)

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 * Last reply from: [Tomas Mackevicius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomasm/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-author-permalink/#post-9480957)
 * Status: resolved