How to remove author base in WordPress

Question

Standard author links in WordPress look like: example.com/author/johnsmith

I\'d like to remove the author/ part of the URL so the username

Answer 1

Also add this near the other similar two, in order to redirect the feeds as well:

$author_rewrite["({$author->nicename})/page/?([0-9]+)/?$"] = 'index.php?author_name=$matches[1]&paged=$matches[2]';