Comments on: Redirect users to the WordPress front page after logging in

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:42:26 +0000

I use your plug in to lock down my blogs so that people have to log in to view the entire blog. Right now I redirect my subscribers to my homepage but they complain that they want to stay on that blog page that they logged in on. How do I program your plug in so the user stays on whatever page they were on when they logged in? I don't want to send them to an arbitrary page, I want them to see the full that they were on, whatever that page may be, before they logged in. Reply from Peter: Please see this comment

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:58:44 +0000

Many thanks – excellent plugin

By: Mario Zuany

Mario Zuany — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:50:56 +0000

Man, I just want to thank you for this! =)

By: bob

bob — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:53:37 +0000

simple way.. http://nathany.com/developer/redirecting-wordpress-subscribers/

worked for me

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:04:20 +0000

Sorry Kevin, I don’t have any other ideas except maybe the plugin wasn’t activated again after you fixed your syntax error? Otherwise, if you want to send me some temporary login details, I can check it out.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:12:36 +0000

I missed the ";" at the end of my line… a simple error. However, now that it’s working, I’m not getting a redirect when I log in as a subscriber… And if I change the setting by level (level_0 = subscriber), I’m not getting a redirect either.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:59:58 +0000

Yup, that’s how it works. Make sure you are redirecting to a page within your blog’s directory — without hacking the core files, WordPress does not allow you to redirect to external pages upon login.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:44:48 +0000

Hi Peter,
I’m trying to get this to work, but I’m a little lost as to how to go about configuring the code. For example, I want to redirect via Subscriber role, so how do I add that?

$redirect_by_role = array(); // Do not touch this line. Enter rules below this line

When I enter:

$redirect_by_role['subscriber'] = ‘http://www.example.com’;

underneath the above line, nothing happens. I should be able to figure this out, but I’m not as familiar with PHP as I would like to be.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 02:39:56 +0000

Hi Nate, I've now updated the more complex version to include redirect per role.

By: Nate

Nate — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:20:41 +0000

Peter, I just wanted to let you know that this is an excellent plugin. I very luckily stumbled upon it. I used the "working but much more complex solution" and it did exactly what I needed to get done.

One suggestion if you decide to continue to improve the plugin would be to allow users to configure the redirects by role, since you already have level and individual users.

Regardless it’s a great plugin and thanks for the work you put into it.