Redirect after Login on Wordpress

Question

I'm creating a customized wordpress theme based on an existing site.

I want to use an alternate dashboard which I have created.

How can I have the user directed to 'news.php' after login instead of '/wp-admin/' ?

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EDIT: Have a working Plug-in for this but the bounty is still availible for anyone who can find a manual way to do this through functions.php, as it would be more secure then using a 3rd party plug-in.

Answer 1

Please try this, it works for any redirection on wordpress

add_filter('woocommerce_login_redirect', 'wc_login_redirect'); 

function wc_login_redirect( $redirect_to ) {

   $redirect_to = 'PUT HERE URL OF THE PAGE';
   return $redirect_to;

}

Answer 2

To globally redirect after successful login, find this code in wp-login.php, under section.

   <form name="loginform" id="loginform" action="<?php echo esc_url( site_url( 'wp-login.php', 'login_post' ) ); ?>" method="post">

<input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="<?php echo esc_attr($redirect_to); ?>" />

and replace <?php echo esc_attr($redirect_to); ?> with your URL where you want to redirect. The URL must start with http:// and ends on /other wise page redirect to default location.

Do same thing form redirect after registration with in same file but under <form name="registerform"> section.

Answer 3

// Used theme's functions.php  
add_action('login_form', 'redirect_after_login'); 
function redirect_after_login() 
{     
global $redirect_to; 
if   (!isset($_GET['redirect_to'])) 
{ 
$redirect_to =   get_option('sample-page');
//  sample-page = your page name after site_url
} }

Answer 4

The accepted answer is very wrong. One should never be modifying the WordPress Core. Not only will edits be lost at a given update, some changes you make on a whim may compromise other functionality or even endanger the security of your site.

Action Hooks & Filters are included within the core to allow modifying functionality without modifying code.

An example of using the login_redirect filter to redirect certain users can be found here and is a much more robust solution to your problem.

For your specific problem, you want to do this:

function login_redirect( $redirect_to, $request, $user ){
    return home_url('news.php');
}
add_filter( 'login_redirect', 'login_redirect', 10, 3 );

Answer 5

This may help. Peter's Login Redirect

Redirect users to different locations after logging in and logging out.

Define a set of redirect rules for specific users, users with specific roles, users with specific capabilities, and a blanket rule for all other users. Also, set a redirect URL for post-registration. This is all managed in Settings > Login/logout redirects.

You can use the syntax [variable]username[/variable] in your URLs so that the system will build a dynamic URL upon each login, replacing that text with the user's username. In addition to username, there is "userslug", "homeurl", "siteurl", "postid-23", "http_referer" and you can also add your own custom URL "variables"...

Answer 6

If you have php 5.3+, you can use an anonymous function like so:

add_filter( 'login_redirect', function() { return site_url('news'); } );