Please help, login redirect

  • Resolved 750014

    15 years, 9 months ago

    I have been dealing with this one issue for so long it’s driving me nuts. I wish I knew more but I need help.

    I have a “secure” blog you can only access with a login and I want to keep it that way. It’s secured with a “members only” plugin.

    The only way to enter is a link from my main page to “…../wp-login.php”
    Everything works except for the fact that my subscribers get redirected to the dashboard. I really don’t want that. I want them to be redirected to the main page of the secure blog.

    In the past I was able to do this by editing the wp-login.php file to redirect to the folder of the wordpress installation. I had to do this with each upgrade of wordpress, but since wordpress 2.6 this does not work anymore I still get redirected to the dashboard upon login.

    I searched for a long time for a plugin. But everything I seem to find redirects to the page the user came from (the page with the link) not the main page of the secure blog.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thank you

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  • Thread Starter 750014

    15 years, 9 months ago

    I finally figured it out.

    I installed 2 plugins;

    Role Manager
    and
    IWE Hide Dashboard

    In users I added a capability “Hide Dashboard”

    Then I enabled it for the subscriber role

    Then I edited the IWE Hide Dashboard plugin

    I change the entry “else…….”/wp-admin/profile.php”
    to
    “else…….”/index.php”

    works great, and I’m able to have the dashboard up as a admin but off as a subscriber.

    bestfoot

    (@bestfoot)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    Sounds like maybe they “broke” the redirect in members only in 2.6. I am having the same problem except that your solution won’t really work for me as I want my authors to be able to see the dashboard if they go to site admin, but not when they just log in.

    I presume there may be a way to edit log-in.php or something. Not sure how to fix it, suggestions welcomed.

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