Where members land after signing in
One destination per role, for signing in, signing out and signing up — and the rule that decides for a member with several roles.
- Intermediate
- 5 min read
- Applies to 2.0
Set a destination per role
User Access → User, in the redirect panels. There are three, and they are independent:
- After signing in
- After signing out
- After signing up
Each lists your roles with a URL field, plus a default used when a role has none.
The per-role redirect panel, with a rule for one role and a default.
- A test account in each role lands where you meant
- The default is set — it catches every role you did not list
- The destination pages exist and are reachable by that role
How the destination is chosen
Three steps, in order:
- The member's first role that has a rule. If they are a Subscriber and Subscriber has a URL, that is where they go.
- The default rule, if no role matched.
- WordPress's own behaviour — administrators to the dashboard, everyone else to the home page — if there is no default either.
"First role that has a rule" means the order WordPress stores the member's roles in, not a priority you can set. A member who is both Editor and Subscriber follows whichever comes first in their account — which is not something you control from this screen. Give multi-role members their own role with its own rule rather than relying on the order.
When the free plugin also has a destination
The free plugin has a single default destination of its own. The rule is simple: a matching per-role rule wins; the free plugin's default applies only when no role rule and no default here match.
So you can leave the free plugin's setting as a global fallback and use this screen for the exceptions.
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