WordPress 5 Cookbook

How it works...

In this recipe, we wanted to show user profile data in the frontend using a custom URL structure, instead of using a shortcode inside posts or pages. We started the process by using a callback function called wpccp_chapter7_manage_user_routes on the init action. Inside this function, we used the add_rewrite_rule function to define a custom route to load the user profile template. This function is part of the WordPress Rewrite API where a given URL is transformed into a set of query variables. These query variables allow us to separate one request from another and load the correct custom template instead of using built-in theme templates.

The first parameter of the add_rewrite_rule function defines the regular expression to ...