Title: wordpress rewrite/permalink bug
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# wordpress rewrite/permalink bug

 *  [e-head](https://wordpress.org/support/users/e-head/)
 * (@e-head)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-rewritepermalink-bug/)
 * index.php?author_name=<whatever> doesn’t work.
 * I call this a bug because the rewrite rules wp dumps for you when enabling permalinks
   use this query string, which doesn’t seem to work for me.
 * index.php?author=<id> works just fine, btw, but is not ideal because it requires
   the ID and not the author name.
 * I could be doing something wrong.
    Any ideas ?

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-rewritepermalink-bug/#post-152973)
 * Seems to be working for me. There’s a solution to a different problem when using
   custom permalinks and .htaccess; you may want to see if it deals with yours:
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=24402](http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=24402)
 *  Thread Starter [e-head](https://wordpress.org/support/users/e-head/)
 * (@e-head)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-rewritepermalink-bug/#post-153166)
 * I finally figured this out. Thought I’d pass this along in case anyone is interested.
 * I’ve never really used the “Firstname”, “Lastname” fields. My users have always
   just left these blank. I think I was expecting the author_name=<> to use the 
   login name, but of course it uses the Firstname.
 * On wp 1.2 (my version) changing the Firstname later doesn’t seem to help, so 
   you have to give firstnames when the user is created I guess. My version is a
   bit hacked though so I don’t know if this is the norm.
 * On wp 1.5 adding a Firstname later seems to fix things up just fine.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [e-head](https://wordpress.org/support/users/e-head/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-rewritepermalink-bug/#post-153166)
 * Status: not resolved

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