Redirect if url is http://siteurl/username

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  • Rebecca O'Brien

    (@rjmastey)

    14 years, 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.

    Thread Starter iyoworks

    (@iyoworks)

    14 years, 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?

    Thread Starter iyoworks

    (@iyoworks)

    14 years, 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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