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1. iyoworks
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   I'm working on a client site in which students will have 'portfolios'. The portfolio page is just a page that pulls a user's projects (my custom post type).

   The url structure for the portfolios is http://siteurl/portfolios/?username

   What I want is for http://siteurl/username to redirect to http://siteurl/portfolios/?username

   Does anyone have any idea on how to get this setup?

2. Rebecca Mastey
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Two ways to do it
   1. Download the Page Link To plugin, create a page for each student and set their portfolio as the redirect link <-- easy!
   2. Create a custom redirect option in .htaccess/wp_rewrite to handle this <-- hard-ish

   Depending on how many students there are, I'd honestly go with the easy option.

3. iyoworks
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Thanks. The site will probably start with 30-50 students and will grow as more student go through the program. I'm not too versed with the wp_rewrite tag or the .htaccess file. How would I get the second option to work?

4. iyoworks
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   I created a work around. This is the code I'm using in my functions.php file:

   //redirect to student profile if [homeurl]/[username] is the current url.
   if (!is_admin()) {
   
   $url = $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] . $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
   $url = ereg_replace("(https?)://", "", $url);
   $token = explode('/', $url);
   $token = $token[sizeof($token)-1];
   
   $shortPortfolioUrl = ereg_replace("(https?)://", "", (home_url(''.$token.'')));
   if ($url == $shortPortfolioUrl) {
   	if (username_exists($token) != null ) {
   		$location = home_url().'/portfolios/?'.$token;
   		wp_redirect( $location );
   		exit;
   	}
   }
   
   }

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