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;
}
}
}
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?