Redirecting user after updating profile?

Question

I have been working around with adding stuff in user profile edit area. I am done with that but there is one thing I am unable to sort out.

What I am planning to do is to redirect a user to a custom page (custom member page) after they successfully edited their profile (wp-admin/profile.php) . In case of error they stay there. Help is appreciate :) Thanks

Answer 1

This is the function that you need:

add_action( 'profile_update', 'custom_profile_redirect', 12 );
function custom_profile_redirect() {
    if(is_admin()):
        wp_redirect( trailingslashit( home_url() ) );
        exit;
    endif;
}

Just change the target of wp_redirect to whatever URL you want your users to go to. You can even add conditional logic to it if you only want this to happen for certain users, like the function below:

add_action( 'profile_update', 'custom_profile_redirect', 12 );
function custom_profile_redirect() {
    if ( is_admin() && current_user_can( 'subscriber' ) ) {
        wp_redirect( trailingslashit( home_url() ) );
        exit;
    }
}

Hope this helps! You can learn more about it from this tutorial I wrote.

Answer 2

Just adding to the answers by Thomas Griffin and user114196 (not got the reputation to comment). The hook profile_update is also called when the lost password functionality is used, before the email is sent, so the redirect breaks this in a very annoying to debug way. This can be fixed by checking if user_activation_key has changed (the link used for password reset), and not redirecting if so.

add_action('profile_update', 'wbb_profile_update', 10, 3);
function wbb_profile_update($user_id, $oldUserData, $newUserData) {
    // This is also called on lost password, BEFORE the email is sent - hence breaking it. If that's the case, don't redirect.
    $doRedirect = $oldUserData->data->user_activation_key === $newUserData['user_activation_key'];
    if ($doRedirect && get_option('wbb-redirect-users-to-on-login', '')){
        wp_redirect(get_option('wbb-redirect-users-to-on-login', ''));
        die();
    }
}

Answer 3

add_action('personal_options_update', 'redirect_me');
function redirect_me(){
  wp_redirect(home_url('/'));
  exit;
}

Answer 4

this is old but i'll add to this as i was looking for a similar solution and this was the closest result.

personal_options_update fires before updating the profile

profile_update fires after the updating the profile

add_action('profile_update', 'redirect_me');
function redirect_me(){
  wp_redirect(home_url('/'));
  exit;
}