send users logging in from wp-login.php directly to home page of site, rather than dashboard

Question

I am currently using a plugin called Sidebar Login which allows users to bypass the dashboard and go directly to the site. However, when users login via /wp-login.php (e.g. when they click on their verification links in their emails), they are once again sent to the dashboard. I would like for users to be able to click on their verification links and have them directed to the home page of the website where they can sign in through the sidebar login I have set up. Is this possible?

Answer 1

You can achieve this by using the Plugin Peter's Login Redirect. It allows you to send users to a specific page after login, based on the user capabilities. So you can allow administrators to go to the admin section, while members are redirected to the front page.

If you want to prevent users from ever seeing the admin, insert something like this to your functions.php, depending on which users you want to allow in the admin you may have to change the capability.

if ( is_admin() && !current_user_can('manage_options') ) {
    wp_redirect( get_bloginfo( 'url' ) );
}

You can also hook a redirect function to login_enqueue_scripts, to send every user calling the login page to the homepage (same structure as above).