Send Each Role to Its Own Page After Login
Chooses where people land after logging in based on their role, for example editors to the posts list, customers to their account and subscribers to a members page.
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Code
// Role => destination. {admin} means the wp-admin address.
$wpide_login_destinations = array(
'administrator' => '{admin}',
'editor' => '{admin}edit.php',
'author' => '{admin}edit.php',
'subscriber' => '/',
);
add_filter( 'login_redirect', function ( $redirect_to, $requested, $user ) use ( $wpide_login_destinations ) {
if ( ! $user instanceof WP_User ) {
return $redirect_to;
}
if ( $requested && untrailingslashit( $requested ) !== untrailingslashit( admin_url() ) ) {
return $redirect_to;
}
foreach ( (array) $user->roles as $role ) {
if ( empty( $wpide_login_destinations[ $role ] ) ) {
continue;
}
$target = $wpide_login_destinations[ $role ];
return 0 === strpos( $target, '{admin}' ) ? admin_url( substr( $target, 7 ) ) : home_url( $target );
}
return $redirect_to;
}, 20, 3 );Notes
Use {admin} at the start of a value for an admin page, or a path on your site. Explicit redirect_to links, such as from a protected page, are respected.
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