Peter Raschendorfer

<p>The Smart User Slug Hider Plugin hides usernames in Author Pages URLs to enhance Security</p>
<h3>Retired Plugin</h3>
<p>Development, maintenance and support of this plugin has been retired in october 2023. You can use this plugin as long as is works for you.</p>
<p>There will be no more updates and I won’t answer any support questions. Thanks for your understanding.</p>
<p>Feel free to fork this plugin.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>The plugin automatically replaces user names with 16 digits coded strings. There are no settings. Just install and forget. Deactivating the Plugin restores the default WordPress behavior.</p>
<h3>Why use this plugin?</h3>
<p>WordPress uses the pattern <code>example.com/author/name</code> for author page URLs where <code>name</code> represents the users login name.</p>
<p>This means that the <strong>login names from all your users are publicly visible</strong> which is a serious security flaw.</p>
<p>The Smart User Slug Hider Plugin changes all author page URLs from e.g. <code>example.com/author/john</code> to something like <code>example.com/author/e9e716def73f76ac</code>.</p>
<p>The codes are generated automatically and its impossible to make conclusions about the user names. The WordPress default URLs will cause a 404 (not found) error.</p>
<h3>Shortcodes</h3>
<p>The plugin adds three shortcodes you can use in your posts:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>[smart_user_slug]</code> – the user slug of the post author – e.g. e9e716def73f76ac</li>
<li><code>[smart_user_url]</code> – the url of the post author’s profile page – e.g. example.com/author/e9e716def73f76ac</li>
<li><code>[smart_user_link]</code> – adds a link to the post author’s profile page</li>
</ul>
<h3>Theme Functions</h3>
<p>The plugin adds two functions that can be used in theme files:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>get_smart_user_slug( $author_id )</code> to <strong>get</strong> the user slug for the author – the parameter $author_id is optional, if omitted the author`s ID of the current post is used</li>
<li><code>the_smart_user_slug( $author_id )</code> to <strong>display</strong> the user slug for the author – the parameter $author_id is optional, if omitted the author`s ID of the current post is used</li>
</ul>
<h3>Plugin Privacy Information</h3>
<ul>
<li>This plugin does not set cookies</li>
<li>This plugin does not collect or store any data</li>
<li>This plugin does not send any data to external servers</li>
</ul>


Smart User Slug Hider

Hide usernames in Author Pages URLs to enhance Security

Stefano

<p>Easily calculate and handle authors’ pay on a multi-author blog. Set up payment criteria and let the plugin compute posts payment. Stats are immediately viewable. Both a general view with all users and a specific one for each author are available. It can easily help you implement a revenue sharing/paid to write model for your business.</p>
<p><a href="https://postpaycounter.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin HOMEPAGE</a></p>
<p><strong>Features include:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Pay per post, word, visit (<a href="https://postpaycounter.com/pay-writers-per-visit-wordpress?utm_source=wprep&utm_medium=link" rel="nofollow ugc">tutorial</a>), image and comment (not mutually exclusive).</li>
<li>Pay with an incremental system (eg. each word is €0.01 => 100 words = €1) or with a zonal one (eg. from 200 to 300 words/visits it’s €2.00, up to 10 zones).</li>
<li>No account needed. Data is yours, no need to sign-up to anything really.</li>
<li>Old stats availability. View posts countings since the first written post, disregarding the plugin install date. A fancy date picker lets you shift between days and select the desired range, or pick a ready choice (such as <em>This month</em>, <em>Last month</em>…).</li>
<li>Responsive and sortable stats: optimized stats page for mobile devices and sortable stats table.</li>
<li>Personalize user’s settings, so that special settings only apply to a particular user. Different settings can be made apparent in the stats or hidden depending on your needs.</li>
<li>Customizable permissions to prevent your users to see stats and use functions they are not supposed to.</li>
<li>Extend with your own custom implementation through hooks, filters and special API features (<a href="https://postpaycounter.com/add-custom-payment-types-post-pay-counter-stats?utm_source=wprep&utm_medium=link" rel="nofollow ugc">learn more</a>).</li>
<li>And… works with custom post types, narrow your payments only to chosen user groups, supports pagination, and even more!</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://github.com/TheCrowned/Post-Pay-Counter/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a> (wanna join us coding?)</p>
<h4>Payment management, more visits tracking methods, and pay with PayPal</h4>
<p>The <a href="https://postpaycounter.com/post-pay-counter-pro?utm_source=wprep&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=ppcp" rel="nofollow ugc">PRO version</a> includes integration with Google Analytics, Matomo Analytics, Plausible Analytics, Adsense Revenues sharing, payments management and PayPal payments. Among other stuff, it also allows to keep a convenient log of past payments and to display stats in public pages through a shortcode.</p>
<h4>Integrate with Facebook</h4>
<p>The <a href="https://postpaycounter.com/facebook-pay-per-social-interactions-shares-likes-and-comments?utm_source=wprep&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=ppcp_fb" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook addon</a> allows to pay posts for the Facebook shares and comments they receive.</p>
<p>Browse <a href="https://postpaycounter.com/addons?utm_source=wprep&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=ppc_addons" rel="nofollow ugc">all extensions</a>.</p>
<h4>Available languages</h4>
<p>Post Pay Counter is available in:</p>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>French (Alexandre Mark)</li>
<li>German (<a href="http://inside11.de/" rel="nofollow ugc">Julian Beck</a>)</li>
<li>Dutch (Elza van Swieten)</li>
<li>Italian (Stefano Ottolenghi)</li>
<li>Portoguese (Marco Dantas)</li>
<li>Turkish (A. Bilgen)</li>
<li>Czech (Jiří Kučera)</li>
<li>Russian (Azat Seyitmuhammedov)</li>
</ul>
<p>If you want to <strong>translate it in your own language</strong> and get a discount on the PRO version, <a href="http://www.thecrowned.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">contact us</a>!</p>
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Post Pay Counter

Easily handle authors' payments on a multi-author blog by computing posts' remuneration basing on admin defined rules.

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