[wp-hackers] /author/ is still broken.

[Dan Li]

> Looking at the query for my admin user that didn't work the . in the
> username is being stripped out so:
>
> http://trunk.wp.sandbox.ftwr.co.uk/author/peter.westwood/
>
> Causes the following query:
>
> SELECT ID FROM trunk_users WHERE user_nicename='peterwestwood';
>
> Maybe we need to ban the . or fix the code stripping it?
>
> westi
> - --
> Peter Westwood
> http://blog.ftwr.co.uk

Does the user nickname go through sanitize_title? If it does, then it
suffers from http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1972

Regards,
  - Dan Li