Question

I’m building a WordPress-site, where user needs to log in before access to the blog itself. For now, I’ve used this:

add_action('wp_head','foofunc');
function foofunc() {
    if(!is_user_logged_in()) die();
}

However, this way I cannot redirect the user to another url, as output has already started. Is there any way to redirect not-logged-in users to an url?

I would user init but that redirects users in wp-admin too.

Martti Laine

Answer 1

Use the “init” handler together with is_admin() to check if the user is already in the admin panel or not:

add_action('init','foofunc');
function foofunc() {
    $isLoginPage = strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], "wp-login.php") !== false;   
    if(!is_user_logged_in() && !is_admin() &&  !$isLoginPage) {
        header( 'Location: http://yourdomain.com/login' ) ;
        die();
    }
}