How to set where user is redirected to after logging in at wp-login?

Question

So i'm fairly certain this probably has something to do with the fact that I'm using a custom role I've set up in my functions.php file with almost 0 permissions. However, I'm still able to access the dashboard, just I get sent to profile.php on login instead of dashboard. I want my user_role to get sent to the dashboard each time as I have a custom widget set up for them there. I can't seem to find the function in the codex and the necessary hook to set this up? It looks like if I was using a custom login form I could use wp_login_form() but I just want to use the default login form without hacking the admin file so its not effected by updates. Anyone know the function I'm needing. Cant' seem to feed google the right terminology.

Answer 1

Filter 'login_redirect'.

Sample code, not tested:

add_filter( 'wp_login', 'wpse_78150_login_redirect' );

function wpse_78150_login_redirect( $url )
{
    # uncomment the next line for debugging
    # var_dump( wp_get_current_user() ); exit;

    if ( ! current_user_can( 'custom_role' ) )
        return $url;

    return admin_url();
}