Comments on: Fix Bad Author Hyperlink in WordPress For OpenID Users

By: David Marcucci

David Marcucci — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:51:15 +0000

It looks like WordPress has a method to use the author ID in a feed url built in. Apparently it depends on how the various templates call the function to generate the feed url as to how the feed url will be built. For example, using the author id, try this as a parameter on your url: ?feed=rss&author=11 and it should generate an RSS feed for that author. Since it seems to depend on the template there doesn’t appear to be a WordPress code fix for the problem you are seeing.

Let me know if it works.

By: jefferai

jefferai — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:24:49 +0000

As it turns out, this is now a blocker for some people I work with moving to our WordPress install instead of what they’re currently using. They like the category and tag feeds but losing the author feeds is a no-go.

I’ve tried sending email (and xmpp) to the plugin’s author, but haven’t heard back — so if you can manage to figure it out, that’d be fantastic.

By: David Marcucci

David Marcucci — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:21:10 +0000

I haven’t looked at that code yet…let me see if I can figure out a workaround for the author feeds.

By: jefferai

jefferai — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:56:32 +0000

This actually has a problem — author feeds don’t work. E.g. http://myblog/?author=11/feed is not valid, and simply returns the author page. Do you know how to make this work? Thanks!

By: jefferai

jefferai — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:06:22 +0000

I just ran into this — thanks a bunch!