Redirect Users to Homepage Instead of Dashboard after Logging into WordPress

Sick of having your blog’s users sent to the Dashboard after they log in? Here’s a quick way to redirect all registered users to your blog’s homepage. Just add the following code to your theme’s functions.php file.

<?php
add_filter( 'login_redirect', 'mf_redirect_login' );
function mf_redirect_login( $c ) {
	return get_bloginfo( 'url' );
}
?>

5 Responses to “Redirect Users to Homepage Instead of Dashboard after Logging into WordPress”

Vancouver Web Design says:

December 2, 2009 at 10:54 am

Hey, thanks for this tip! Works great. Question: Can I apply the same concept for logout?

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- Michael Fields says:
  
  December 5, 2009 at 1:43 am
  
  Hi Mr “Web Design”,
  Yes, that is quite easy as well. Please try the following code:
```
add_action( 'wp_logout', 'mf_redirect_logout' );
function mf_redirect_logout() {
	wp_safe_redirect( get_bloginfo('url') );
	exit();
}
```
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kailoon says:

January 5, 2010 at 12:23 am

Can I redirect users to the post?

I have this in the adress

DOMAIN?redirect_to=A_POST_URL

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- Michael Fields says:
  
  January 5, 2010 at 1:49 am
  
  kailoon, I don’t see why not…
  
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effect says:

February 17, 2010 at 6:18 pm

this function seems to redirect me to only 1 level up. For example if I am on http://yonge.cs.ucl.ac.uk/wordpress/password-recovery address
it redirects me to http://yonge.cs.ucl.ac.uk/wordpress/ (Which is ok, since it’s my homepage).
But if I am on http://yonge.cs.ucl.ac.uk/wordpress/category/letters_1850-1859 address, it sends me to http://yonge.cs.ucl.ac.uk/wordpress/category (it’s not my homepage and this page does not exist). Do you know how to solve this problem?
My login form is located on the header of the website.

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