Especially when having multiple authors on your WordPress blog but also when you are the only person posting on your blog, sometimes you need that your author link to point at another place than your "posts by author page". This little WordPress plugin does exactly this. You just upload and activate the plugin and go to your WordPress profile page and add your custom URL in the Website field. Your author link will now point to your custom URL, it's that easy.
If want to change back to the default "posts by author page" just delete your custom website URL from your profile page.
Download Custom Author Link WordPress Plugin
Off course, if having multiple authors each one of them can add their own custom author link.
This is where you place the custom link in your profile page:
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
I've been looking for something like this for a while.
I disabled the standard author page with WordPress SEO because I have a single author blog but that only redirects to the home page. I wanted to redirect to a static bio page on my site.
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
I was looking for this exactly for pretty long time. Many other blogs were suggesting a painful technical editing process. And finally this plug in saved the day. Thanks a lot. I suggest wordpress should have a inbuilt function like this. WordPress is known for user friendliness, right?