Creating user profile pages in wordpress

Question

What I'm trying to achieve is to make each user on the website(the wp-users) have their own unique front-end profile pages like so site.com/user/userX. (EDIT: To clarify, it is not a settings page that only the user himself can see, it's a open profile page for logged users or anonymous/visitors to access and see its profile)

I thought about using the url GET (site.com/user?name=userX) in a post but wordpress doesn't seems to understand "?..=.." and says page doesn't exist. This solution does not look like a good practice in wordpress so I'm trying to look from another perspective.

Even tho there are a couple of plugins there that would do that for me and more, I'm stuck with doing manually since I'm building a multi-language website (using Polylang), so plugins will only work in the main language. Briefly, Polylang keeps track of the language through url, ex.: site.com/langX/pageX, and the plugins I've tried are stuck to one page only.

I'm inclined to say what I'm looking for is a way in the functions.php to make Wordpress understand that a page .../user/ will expect a name right after .../user/userX like that I can use the same function for multiple languages : ...langX/user/userX, ...langY/user/userX ...

I'd be glad if someone could put me in the right direction of what should I be looking for.

Found the answer in another post, routing : wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/58683/… — BrunoWB

Mehrshad Darzi Mehrshad Darzi · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-14T07:08:32

for security you should create a new route in wordpress :

function custom_rewrite_basic() {
  add_rewrite_rule('^user/([0-9]+)/?', 'index.php?user_profile=$matches[1]', 'top');
}
add_action('init', 'custom_rewrite_basic');


function custom_rewrite_tag() {
  add_rewrite_tag('%user_profile%', '([^&]+)');
}
add_action('init', 'custom_rewrite_tag', 10, 0);

Now, you can access the same page as : http://example.com/user/95

this code in your theme :

get_header(); 
global $wp_query;
if($wp_query->query_vars['user_profile']) {

//do stuff

}

Creating user profile pages in wordpress

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