Redirect after Login on WordPress

Question

I\'m creating a customized WordPress theme based on an existing site.

I want to use an alternate dashboard which I have created.

How can I have the user dire

Answer 1

The accepted answer is very wrong. One should never be modifying the WordPress Core. Not only will edits be lost at a given update, some changes you make on a whim may compromise other functionality or even endanger the security of your site.

Action Hooks & Filters are included within the core to allow modifying functionality without modifying code.

An example of using the login_redirect filter to redirect certain users can be found here and is a much more robust solution to your problem.

For your specific problem, you want to do this:

function login_redirect( $redirect_to, $request, $user ){
    return home_url('news.php');
}
add_filter( 'login_redirect', 'login_redirect', 10, 3 );