Question

Using WordPress – I want to check who has just logged in and if they are UsernameX then redirect to PageX, if they are an Administrator then redirect to /wp-admin/ and all others redirect to home_url();

This is my code:

function my_login_redirect($redirect_to, $request, $user){
    if(in_array('student',$user->user_login)) {
        return home_url("/students/");
    } else {
        if(in_array('administrator', $user->roles)){
            return home_url("/wp-admin/");
        } else {
            return home_url();
        }
    }
}
add_filter("login_redirect", "my_login_redirect", 10, 3);

However it doesn’t seem to work – particularly the check against user_login. Is there a better – working – way to do this?

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Answer / Correct code – thanks to @soju:

function my_login_redirect($redirect_to, $request, $user){
    if($user->first_name == 'student')) {
        return home_url("/students/");
    } else {
        if(in_array('administrator', $user->roles)){
            return home_url("/wp-admin/");
        } else {
            return home_url();
        }
    }
}
add_filter("login_redirect", "my_login_redirect", 10, 3);

This means using the User’s first name as $user doesn’t contain the username, but if you wanted you could get it using the ID as returned by $user I guess.

Answer 1

This line :

if(in_array('student',$user->user_login)) {

is not correct, $user->user_login does not exist and is not an array.

EDIT : http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_User