Author Page returning 404

[curtezriggs]

Greetings

For whatever reason my author page returns a 404 error. I'm using Yoast WordPress SEO, under Titles and Meta I have the disable author archive block unchecked. Under my user settings, I have checked enable author box on post and archives.

Here's a link to one of my post: http://www.soldiersmoney.com/life-after-the-military-what-now/

Thanks in advance for your assistance!

[Jared Williams]

Looks like there is a space in the author URL

http://www.soldiersmoney.com/author/Curtez Riggs/

It should be - http://www.soldiersmoney.com/author/Curtez-Riggs/

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[curtezriggs]

Hey thanks for the response. I figured that part out, but I couldn't determine how to fix it. I ended up deleting that profile and creating a new user. Everything is working as it should now.

 

[alanaburton]

Hi both,

I have the same problem on http://www.50shadesofmum.co.uk/

Each blog post I've done has the author link and it goes through to a 404: http://www.50shadesofmum.co.uk/author/50%20Shades%20of%20Mum/

I've created a 2nd user but ideally want to stick with my original admin one created and can see it has the spaces but I can't see where in my settings the spaces are being created as I have updated it in the User settings to display nickname publicly as: 50shadesofmum, user name happens to be just "shades" or display my name. Where is this showing or is it now just cached content that will go shortly? I've done a hard refresh CTRL+F5 but still showing that. I don't really want to change the posts admin to the 2nd user to see if that solves it?

I'm also using Yoast and originally had set the author page to no index, no follow, no archive etc. as it advises in the actual plugin settings but this gives me this 404 in my webmaster tools?? I'd rather no 404 than just following the advice there but surely the advice Yoast has would be to eliminate any of that sort of confusion/404s?? I have changed the settings now to uncheck the boxes as curtezriggs had done so the question I guess is, will it sort itself out or am I still missing something?

Thanks!

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