for security?? obfuscation is not security…

but, afraid there is no way to change it to be other than the login name… short of some serious hacking of the code…

for security?? obfuscation is not security…

but, afraid there is no way to change it to be other than the login name… short of some serious hacking of the code…

Yes security. The username in the profile url displays the username publicly, which is half the combination to log-in. And certainly not something my members would want to display.

For example, you can change your user_nicename in the DB to change your author link so you’re not leaking your username in your author url.

Is there a way to change it to display their user ID # instead of the WP login? Something like…

$data = get_userdata( $userid );

obfuscation, not security, but whatever… just as possible to go after db with id, display name or login name…

to change to something besides the login name, you would have to modify the core code… this would include changing the rewrite rules, the query var processing and then the profile processing…  if you want to try, we can try to help as you go through it…