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How redirect a user after login based on their WordPress role

How to redirect a user after login based on their WordPress role.
How to redirect users who log in to your site to another URL based on their role. Just add this WordPress code snippet to your theme’s functions.php file.
The function checks for the user role id and redirects to the defined page by using wp_redirect function.

function ns_redirect_user_on_role() {
  //retrieve current user info 
  global $current_user;
  get_currentuserinfo();

  //If login user role is Subscriber
  if ( $current_user>user_level == 0 ){
    wp_redirect( home_url() ); exit;
  }

  //If login user role is Contributor
  else if ( $current_user>user_level > 1 ){
    wp_redirect( home_url() ); exit;
  }

  //If login user role is Editor
  else if ( $current_user->user_level > 8 ){
    wp_redirect( home_url() ); exit;
  }

  // For other rolse 
  else{
  $redirect_to = 'http://google.com/';
    return $redirect_to;
  }
  
}
add_action( 'admin_init','ns_redirect_user_on_role' );

 

How redirect a user after login based on their WordPress role

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