Comments on: Desk Mess Mirrored

By: Edward Caissie

Edward Caissie — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:45:23 +0000

@Daniel – I’m really glad to see this working for you; and thanks for the plugin name … I’m definitely going to have a look at it, too.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:20:41 +0000

By the way, the plugin I added is called “Edit Author Slug” and adds the author slug editable field to the User’s profile edit screen.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:19:49 +0000

ALL Fixed!! I added a plugin which enabled me to edit the author slug (I added the “-” between first and last name) and it fixed the problem completely. I could have done that in the database as well, but it’s easier this way, especially if I get more authors to use the site.

By: Edward Caissie

Edward Caissie — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:20:15 +0000

@Daniel – You should never edit any core WordPress files (it is an extremely rare occasion where I would even consider editing a theme’s core files). Unfortunately I still do not see an immediate solution to this issue, can you provide me with a direct link to your author page? It may or may not help, but I am unable to discern one from what I expect given the information I can currently see on your website.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:05:24 +0000

I edited the file in wp-includes/ folder called author-template.php, line 238. I have just returned it to how it was before my edit, if that will help you.

By: Edward Caissie

Edward Caissie — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:00:21 +0000

@Daniel – Although I have not reviewed the code for Twenty Eleven, I can see that it is quite possible that particular PHP function may be used to remove a space, but I have also noticed modifications to the Desk Mess Mirrored theme have been made.

As edits have been made, I may not be able to offer any suggestions as to what options are available for you to now correct this issue.

By: Edward Caissie

Edward Caissie — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:57:50 +0000

@Daniel – In your reference to line 238 you must be referring to editing another theme as the ‘author.php’ template used in Desk Mess Mirrored is not that many lines.

This edit also appears to have affected your author name in all instances as there is no longer a space in the author URL.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:47:23 +0000

I was actually able to modify the author-template.php file, line 238, so that it takes the space out of the Author, but it’s still not pulling up the author’s bio (which there is one; a widget I’m using displays the bio).

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:25:57 +0000

In the 2011 Theme the space between first and last name is removed in the link. so somewhere in the code str_replace is being used in Theme 2011.

By: Edward Caissie

Edward Caissie — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:13:17 +0000

@Daniel – Thank you for the compliment. I can see what the issue is, although I do not see right off why it occurred. The issue has to do with your author name having a space between the first and last names. WordPress itself is trying to reach the author page for “Daniel” not “Daniel Carlson” and since it is not finding a “Daniel” author page a 404, or page not found, is being returned. I do not see this as directly theme related. Do you see this issue if you use the default Twenty Ten or Twenty Eleven themes?

PS: I just tested creating a new user name that has a first and last name (without a space) and was not able to re-create your issue; by default the most recent version of WordPress added a hyphen between the two names allowing it to better handle user names with two (or more) names/words.