The trouble is that when I did the update to wordpress 2.6, this trick no longer works for me. It still directs subscribers to their profile/dashboard.
Bingo, login seems to have changed and I can’t figure out how to fix a login redirect for a basic subscriber to go back to the frontpage instead of seeing that awful dashboard. God, I hate that thing.
It’s particularly annoying that this is the only thing standing between my site going live and sitting dormant. /ugh
The new Admin panels and the decision to throw a user into Dashboard on login is a real mystery — and a major step backward for WP… I think I won’t allow login but somehow ask for a valid email to allow commenting… or look for something else
and the decision to throw a user into Dashboard on login is a real mystery — and a major step backward for WP
I’m sure someone will correct me if mistaken, but I can not remember ever NOT being take to the Dashboard on login in any version I have used (by default). You may want to indicate if it is your intention to deny users access to the Dashboard under all conditions, or if you just seek to redirect the user back to the page they logged in from. I know there are plugins that accomplish the latter (I use one), if you don’t want to write a redirect, and I think I remember reading something not too long ago about complete denial of Dashboard access to certain users or groups of users being possible. You will have to do a search in the plugins section if that’s how you want to go.
or look for something else
…pretty trivial matter to trash the whole idea over.
Hi Clayton,
Thanks for your reply.
I have found a fix but sadly it entails hacking the WP code (I posted that in one of the other post asking for help). Readers of a blog register to the blog not to WP, so the WP Dashboard should never be seen by them. I don’t know of any other blog where I registered and it sent me to a strange looking screen where I cannot do anything much anyway.
Not just the login and not trivial. I have already spent months on Drupal, WP and other CMS/blogs doing POC (Proof of Concept) on which one to recommend to companies. I was pretty sure WP would come out on top, but the recent changes I have seen seem to take WP one big step backward in functionality.
Examples: Dashboard less functional, more clunky, more paging.
Widgets: Recent comments useless as it is without an excerpt. Cannot add the same widget to many page templates. etc. etc.
Not saying it’s not a great product and the open-sourced effort freely contributed is not appreciated, but a company can standardize on only one CMS/blog… and I have been spending the last few weeks scouring the plugins to find those that do “common sense” stuff that really should form part of the core.
As an example, Get Recent Comments plugin and WP-DTree plugin should be promoted to core status.
I guess what I am saying is let’s leave plugins to do the more interesting content-rich or bell-n-whistle stuff, and not stuff that should really form part of the core.
WOW..I agree, Valux !
I have the very same problem and I posted yet another message on this same topic. Sorry, did not see yours first. I, like you, DO NOT want my visitors to be taken to a dashpanel after logging in… Most, simply want to post or reply and have no interest in being forced to a dashpanel to see more “stuff” ! I am sure I had a plugin that took care of it but I have upgraded and the plugins I have now do not fix that problem. I sure hope someone will address this troubling issue… and it is Definitely, not trivial !
Regards,
Steve
Perdido Beach, AL
sadly it entails hacking the WP code
Hell, no! That’s the fun part! 🙂
Not just the login and not trivial. I have already spent months on Drupal, WP and other CMS/blogs doing POC (Proof of Concept) on which one to recommend to companies…
…and I have been spending the last few weeks scouring the plugins to find those that do “common sense” stuff that really should form part of the core.
I understand your distress. I have used most of them at one time or another as well. I suppose what it comes down to, is making the distinction between what your (clients?) really want from you… Do they want to blog? Or do they want a content management system? Or both? It’s difficult to find any “free” or open source applications that fill all of our expectations on any of those levels right out of the box. I am lucky enough to be part of a company that enjoys a high profile global exposure, and I was very pleased (only from a personal perspective) to discover that they currently use WordPress as part of that exposure on the Web. Not out of the box mind you.. it is glaringly obvious that professional hands made things what they are, but it’s WordPress all the same.
What am trying to say? I suppose “open-sourced effort freely contributed is not appreciated, but a company can standardize on only one CMS/blog” may say it all.
It’s obvious your clients may be searching for a “free” or near-free solution that requires little outside (paid) intervention. Perhaps what it will take to meet their expectations, is a solid WordPress foundation backed by an experienced, paid site developer/designer to customize it to suit their needs. As far as plugins go, you are at the mercy and goodwill of the community at large unless you can write them for yourself. Lots of people can, and most of them are kind enough to share.
Keep strokin’… you’ll find a solution.
Best wishes.
