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I recently added a network to my multi-network wordpress install (that is, a single install with multiple subdomain networks, each with multiple subdirectory sites).

Although everything appears normal on the new site from the front end and network admin view, any users I add to the site automatically get redirected to /wp-admin/user upon login. This shows only the WordPress news widget and the Profile menu.

If I manually navigate back to /wp-admin, the full dashboard becomes available, but the redirect is unacceptably inconvenient and hard to diagnose.

A few details that are unique and likely relevant:

  • When creating the new subdomain, I first created a blog on an existing network, then manually went in and modified wp_sites and wp_blogs to promote it to its own subdomain
  • I recently upgraded to 3.9.2
  • This only affects the new subdomain. All existing sites and networks are fine (ruling out plugin conflicts or a botched upgrade in my eyes)

I am relatively certain this problem is probably just one or two database rows away from a fix, but laboriously comparing the values of wp_sitemeta and wp_*_options for a working network to this one reveals nothing different.

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This is normal behavior for WordPress. As with most things in WordPress, there is a plugin for what you are trying to do. Try this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/peters-login-redirect/

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  • This is not normal behavior; I think that maybe you got my question backwards? The system is automatically sending admin users to /wp-admin/user/ instead of /wp-admin/.
    – John Rork
    Aug 13, 2014 at 15:50
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Although why it happened isn't obvious, the problem was that the new users were missing wp_*_capabilities rows for the affected site in the wp_usermeta table.

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this have been dead for 8 years, but it showed in my googleing for a solution so if anyone comes here having a problem with login redirecting wp-admin/user on multisites.

the problem is user_admin_url() function in wp-includes/link-template.php this is only used on multisites.

my fix

add_filter("user_admin_url",function($url){
    return str_replace("/user","",$url);
});

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