diff --git a/bin/create_hugo_pages.py b/bin/create_hugo_pages.py
index 4cffdaaccd..161d576d6b 100755
--- a/bin/create_hugo_pages.py
+++ b/bin/create_hugo_pages.py
@@ -132,7 +132,9 @@ def create_people(srcdir, clean=False):
             data = yaml.load(f, Loader=Loader)
         # Create a page stub for each person
         for name, entry in data.items():
-            person_dir = "{}/content/people/{}".format(srcdir, name[0])
+            person_dir = "{}/content/people/{}/{}".format(
+                srcdir, entry["slug"][0], entry["slug"]
+            )
             if not os.path.exists(person_dir):
                 os.makedirs(person_dir)
             yaml_data = {"name": name, "title": entry["full"], "lastname": entry["last"]}
diff --git a/bin/create_hugo_yaml.py b/bin/create_hugo_yaml.py
index c58bf95aa0..a606873ec8 100755
--- a/bin/create_hugo_yaml.py
+++ b/bin/create_hugo_yaml.py
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 
 from docopt import docopt
 from collections import defaultdict
+from slugify import slugify
 from tqdm import tqdm
 import logging as log
 import os
@@ -90,7 +91,7 @@ def export_anthology(anthology, outdir, clean=False, dryrun=False):
         name = anthology.people.get_canonical_name(id_)
         log.debug("export_anthology: processing person '{}'".format(repr(name)))
         data = name.as_dict()
-        data["slug"] = id_
+        data["slug"] = slugify(repr(name)) or "NONE"
         if id_ in anthology.people.comments:
             data["comment"] = anthology.people.comments[id_]
         if id_ in anthology.people.similar:
diff --git a/data/yaml/name_variants.yaml b/data/yaml/name_variants.yaml
index 6073862bd3..ee74afdb71 100644
--- a/data/yaml/name_variants.yaml
+++ b/data/yaml/name_variants.yaml
@@ -7531,6 +7531,8 @@
 - canonical: {first: Bruce, last: Porter}
   variants:
   - {first: Bruce W., last: Porter}
+- canonical: {first: Matt, last: Post}
+  id: 0000-0002-1297-6794
 - canonical: {first: Oana, last: Postolache}
   variants:
   - {first: Oana-Diana, last: Postolache}
diff --git a/hugo/layouts/partials/author_link.html b/hugo/layouts/partials/author_link.html
index 9c8c2669d0..4615fb490f 100644
--- a/hugo/layouts/partials/author_link.html
+++ b/hugo/layouts/partials/author_link.html
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@
         - person: A dict with key "id" (the ID of the person to link to, e.g., "hector-martinez-alonso"), and optional key "full" (a variant spelling)
         - class (optional): CSS classes for the link
 */}}
-{{ $first_letter := slicestr .person.id 0 1 }}
-{{ $entry := index .ctx.Site.Data.people $first_letter .person.id }}
-{{ $link_to := printf "/people/%s/%s.md" $first_letter .person.id }}
+{{ $id_first_letter := slicestr .person.id 0 1 }}
+{{ $entry := index .ctx.Site.Data.people $id_first_letter .person.id }}
+{{ $name_first_letter := slicestr $entry.slug 0 1 }}
+{{ $link_to := printf "/people/%s/%s/%s.md" $name_first_letter $entry.slug .person.id }}
 <a href="{{ relref .ctx $link_to }}"{{ with .class }} class="{{ . }}"{{ end }}>{{ if isset .person "full" }}{{ .person.full }}{{ else }}{{ $entry.full }}{{ end }}</a>