Title: Problem using pretty URLs with author.php template
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Problem using pretty URLs with author.php template

 *  [pr0test0r](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pr0test0r/)
 * (@pr0test0r)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-using-pretty-urls-with-authorphp-template/)
 * I posted this 4 days ago here, but it received no responses. I’m REALLY hoping
   someone here can help me out. I think this is a simple problem and just boils
   down to something I don’t know and can’t find the answer to. WordPress rocks,
   but I need a blog solution that has good support. This seems like the place to
   find that. Thanks.
 * The other day, I set up an author.php template in my modified version of the 
   default theme. I have my .htaccess file modified to permit “pretty URLs”, and
   when I first set up author.php, I was able to reach it by the [http://&#8230](http://&#8230);../
   baseurl/author/username format, as well as other formats (eg, /?author_name=username).
   
   Today I made several adjustments to the author.php template, but they are not
   reflected when I browse using the pretty URL format. I can see that the template
   is in place and working, because the changes are reflected when I use the /?author_name
   =username string format.
 * This leads me to believe that whatever process (?) enables the pretty URLs has
   cached or otherwise held onto the old author.php template code, even though the
   code from a few days ago no longer exists in any file on the whole server. Have
   others encountered this? Is there a cache I need to clear or something?
 * TIA,
    pr0

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 * [author.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/author-php/)
 * [cache](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cache/)
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 * [template](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/template/)
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