Question

I have a wordpress site, where after use logs in, I want them to redirect to different site. How can i do this in wordpress? setting the php header function( header( “Location: http://www.somesite.com” ) ) didn’t work, it said headers were already set in header.php file. So basically how do i redirect via wordpress?

Does wordpress have it’s own re direct function, where i can use it to redirect safely out of a wordpress site? I have no idea what else to do, so please help me, thanks.

Answer 1

In normal pages, you can use wp_redirect (see Function Reference/wp_redirect)

<?php
wp_redirect( $location, $status );
exit;
?>

To allow redirection to other sites, add the following to functions.php (replacing ‘other’ with your values):

function my_allowed_redirect_hosts($allowed) {
    $allowed[] = 'other.com';
    $allowed[] = 'www.other.com';
    return $allowed;
}
add_filter('allowed_redirect_hosts','my_allowed_redirect_hosts');

Normally, if there is a redirect_to querystring value on the login page’s URL, it will attempt to redirect to that location after authenticating.

To change where the login will redirect users regardless of the redirect_to querystring value, again add to functions.php (replacing the location with your values):

function custom_login_redirect() {
  return 'http://www.other.com/Home/Authenticated';
}
add_filter('login_redirect', 'custom_login_redirect');

For logging out and redirectng to another site, you can then use something like:

<a href="<?=wp_logout_url( "http://other.com/Account/LogOff" )?>">Log Off</a>