This is probably a little hacky, but you could also create a new user/author with the slug you want, delete the old one, and assign all the posts from the old to the new.

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Great insights. Curious about the video embeds. Did you embed your own videos or other people's videos that complemented the blog posts?

Lately my wife and I get that all the time now...

Meant *Do you track?

So you track YT attribution from a simple survey (how did you hear about us) or through GA4 Organic Video traffic?

Exactly. The analytics in all the channels I manage tells quite a different story.

Do you mean it was the same topic idea/image from different angles that did well? Similar to how YouTubers will create the same video from different angles and it oerforms well?

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