Custom permalinks for single page in Wordpress

Question

What I'm trying to achieve is having a single Wordpress page that would "manage" multiple child paths:

/blog_url/user/john

and

/blog_url/user/steve

both paths call the same page /about?name= john or steve.

Is this possible in Wordpress or does it need a custom ReWriteRule? If neither, what is the best way to accomplish this?

Answer 1

You do need a custom rewriterule in your htaccess to do that. Something like:

RewriteRule ^user/([^/]+)/ /user/?name=$1 [NC]

And then you would use $_GET['name'] and use it in your page's code