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My author link is using an obnoxiusly long Akismet ID instead of my username.

  1. vesq
    Member

    My author link is using an obnoxiusly long Akismet ID instead of my username. Instead of using http://olowi.wordpress.com/author/vesq/ it uses http://olowi.wordpress.com/author/akismet-5658ab63338f501643676d51a8873714/.

    This also breaks the widget that displays all authors and links to their posts, because the widget displays links with href of /author/vesq/.

    It seems to be the same problem as described here: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/author-link-url?replies=3
    Blog url: http://olowi.wordpress.com/

  2. timethief
    Member

    Gravatar IDs
    Do you have a funny looking username assigned through Gravatar that starts with g2-* ?
    If so, this was made when an imported Gravatar account had an email address not matching an account with WordPress.com. Please login to WordPress.com and then visit http://wordpress.com /wp-changelogin.php to change this username. http://en.support.wordpress.com/change-your-username/

  3. timethief
    Member

    I'm sorry and I apologize. I didn't read closely and provided a wrong answer above. This thread is now flagged for a Staff response.

  4. vesq
    Member

    Hi timethief, and thanks for the response. I was just about to write you a response for giving a wrong answer. Thanks for flagging this thread.

  5. timethief
    Member

    I'm sorry. I'm speeding along as fast as I can as I must go out soon and do the shopping.

  6. vesq
    Member

    Thats 100% okay, no worries. This isn't a huge critical issue, rather just an annoyance, so I'm fine with delays or some simple human errors :)

  7. macmanx
    Staff

    For some reason, that was set as your nickname. You can change it at Users -> Personal Settings in your blog's Dashboard.

  8. vesq
    Member

    Thanks for the response, but somehow the nickname shows up as "vesq" correctly in the dashboard and I can't change it after clicking the "Change" link because the name really doesn't change.

    Here's a picture of the dashboard with personal stuff deleted. It's in finnish but I hope you can identify which parts are what.

    https://dl.dropbox.com/u/38940252/random/wordpresscom_weirdosities.png

  9. vesq
    Member

    And now I changed it to English but still the same outcome: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/38940252/random/wordpresscom_weirdosities-eng.png

  10. macmanx
    Staff

    Oh, I'm sorry, I gave you the wrong location.

    Don't worry, I took care of it for you.

  11. vesq
    Member

    Well that was very kind of you, thanks. Does it take some time to be effective? Because right now it is not working, http://olowi.wordpress.com/author/vesq/ gives 404 and the http://olowi.wordpress.com/author/akismet-5658ab63338f501643676d51a8873714/ is the only one that works.

  12. macmanx
    Staff

    It should take a few hours for the cache to clear.

  13. vesq
    Member

    Ah, great, thanks. I'll mark this as resolved after it's working :)

  14. macmanx
    Staff

    You're welcome!

  15. vesq
    Member

    It's been 12 hours since the change was made but still the problem exists. Any new ideas?

  16. macmanx
    Staff

    Do you have any luck if you edit a post and change the author to someone else, then back to you?

    You can do this near the bottom of the post edit page in the Author box.

    If you don't see the Author box, click the Screen Options tab near the top-right and make sure that "Author" is checked.

  17. vesq
    Member

    Nope, I tried to change one post but it made no difference.

  18. macmanx
    Staff

    Ok, if you quickly publish a test post, does it go under the correct author link?

    If you'd rather not do that, would you mind waiting until your next normal post?

  19. vesq
    Member

    http://olowi.wordpress.com/2012/11/04/test-post-please-ignore/

    Wrong author link.

  20. macmanx
    Staff

    Ok, feel free to delete that.

    I'm out of ideas myself, so I'm going to pass this up the chain and see if we can get some more eyes on it.

  21. vesq
    Member

    It can lay there, I'm sure it might be of help to someone further up the chain. This truly does sound like a weird bug.

    Let me know if I can be of any help. PHP and WordPress code is not an oddity to me, I've done my share of coding themes and such in last two years so if the discussion has to get technical, I can handle it.

  22. macmanx
    Staff

    No need for anything else yet. We'll let you know when we've found a solution.

    Sorry for the trouble!

  23. vesq
    Member

    That's okay, I'm happy helping to make wordpress.com even better :)

  24. macmanx
    Staff

    Ok, you're all fixed up now.

    Please let us know if you need any further assistance!

  25. vesq
    Member

    Yup, it does work splendidly now. Thank you for all your help! :)

  26. kathrynwp
    Staff

    Great - glad macmanx was able to get this sorted out.

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