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

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.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:32:37 +0000

Hi Brian, see http://www.theblog.ca/anti-spam for the plugin

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:32:47 +0000

Yeah you're right Peter, I thought I had tried it and it worked, but it seems that what I tried was to go to the siteurl/wp-admin and if I was logged out it would redirect me to the login page, but then it would keep me at the dashboard after I had logged in which is the effect I wanted. Maybe the same would have occurred using your script, I hadn't tried it… anyway, it's not really worth the trouble for me, I thought it was an easy solution… thanks either way. -Brian

p.s. What plugin are you using to get the anti-spam feature of your submit comments?