Change author permalink using htaccess?

it’s simpler to do this via your theme’s functions.php or a plugin rather than .htaccess: function wpse31040_author_rewrite(){ add_rewrite_rule( ‘author/([0-9]+)/?$’, ‘index.php?author=$matches[1]’, ‘top’ ); } add_action( ‘init’, ‘wpse31040_author_rewrite’ ); make sure to visit the permalinks settings page after adding this to flush rewrite rules.

Shortcodes not working

This is how your shortcode should be set up: function short_birthday( $atts, $content = NULL ) { extract( shortcode_atts( array( ‘year’ => ‘default value’ ), $atts ) ); list( $Y, $m, $d ) = explode( “-“, $year ); $data = date( “md” ) < $m.$d ? date( “Y” )-$Y-1 : date( “Y” )-$Y; return $data; … Read more

Problem with special character WordPress

There is nothing you can do, the % symbol is not a neutral character and whatever 2 characters immediatly follow it are used to represent a character. This is called percent encoding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding For example, to encode a % you would use %25. Thus the answer is: No, it is not possible to fix this … Read more

Custom post type, permalink, add query variables problem

Yes I did, didn’t help but thanks anyway! I fixed it by installing the dump environment plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dump_env/ This way I was able to evaluate all existing rewrite rules. My custom rewrite rule was conflicting with an existing rewrite rule that WP generated for the custom post type by default. I changed my rule ‘kennel/ras/(.+)/(.+)/?$’ … Read more