I want to make a multi-user website. Different types of users are Students, Teachers, Parents, Admin and counselor. I want to redirect each user to specific pages based on their type after logging in. How do I proceed? Is any plugin available?

How do I carry out registration and login?

Say, students should be redirected to a page student.php if and only if he is a student. Teachers should be redirected to say teacher.php.

All types of users have different dashboards.

I want to make a multi-user website. Different types of users are Students, Teachers, Parents, Admin and counselor. I want to redirect each user to specific pages based on their type after logging in. How do I proceed? Is any plugin available?

How do I carry out registration and login?

Say, students should be redirected to a page student.php if and only if he is a student. Teachers should be redirected to say teacher.php.

All types of users have different dashboards.

• redirect
• user-roles

• You can save their roles in meta fields and on login you can check the field and add the redirection accordingly. – Akshat Commented Jun 19, 2018 at 12:33

1 Answer 1

You would make use of the login_redirect filter.

The example in the documentation looks a lot like what you are asking:

/**
 * Redirect user after successful login.
 *
 * @param string $redirect_to URL to redirect to.
 * @param string $request URL the user is coming from.
 * @param object $user Logged user's data.
 * @return string
 */

function wpse306427_login_redirect( $redirect_to, $request, $user ) {
    //is there a user to check?
    if (isset($user->roles) && is_array($user->roles)) {
        //check for subscribers
        if (in_array('subscriber', $user->roles)) {
            // redirect them to another URL, in this case, the homepage 
            $redirect_to =  home_url();
        }
    }

    return $redirect_to;
}

add_filter( 'login_redirect', 'wpse306427_login_redirect', 10, 3 );

You would put this code in a plug-in or in your theme's function.php.