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How can I rewrite user profile page url like http://website.com/firstnamesecondname-id in wordpress ?

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— a reliable way to get root-level nice URLs like firstname-lastname-ID is to use WordPress's rewrite API instead of manually editing .htaccess or reading raw request variables. Add a rewrite rule that captures the slug and numeric ID, expose a custom query var, and then validate inside your author/profile template so the URL actually maps to the correct user.

A minimal implementation (place in a small plugin or your theme's functions.php):

function dw_profile_rewrites() {
  add_rewrite_tag('%uid%','([0-9]+)');
  add_rewrite_rule('^([a-z0-9-]+)-([0-9]+)/?$', 'index.php?author_name=$matches[1]&uid=$matches[2]', 'top');
}
add_action('init','dw_profile_rewrites');

function dw_query_vars($vars) {
  $vars[] = 'uid';
  return $vars;
}
add_filter('query_vars','dw_query_vars');

In author.php (or a custom template) validate the match and handle mismatches to avoid spoofed slugs or wrong IDs:

$slug = get_query_var('author_name');
$uid  = intval(get_query_var('uid'));
$user = get_user_by('slug', $slug);
if (!$user || $user->ID !== $uid) {
  // redirect to canonical author URL or send 404
  if ($user) {
    wp_safe_redirect(get_author_posts_url($user->ID), 301);
  } else {
    status_header(404); nocache_headers(); include(get_query_template('404')); exit;
  }
  exit;
}

Flush rewrite rules after adding this (visit Settings → Permalinks or call flush_rewrite_rules() on plugin activation). Be careful: root-level rewrites can collide with pages, posts or other endpoints — consider a prefix like /u/ or /profile/ if you have many top-level slugs. For the API details see the WordPress docs for add_rewrite_rule, add_rewrite_tag and flush_rewrite_rules.

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