There are times when you don’t want customers to login and be redirected to the default “My Account” dashboard. Maybe because you have a membership site and you want them to go to a custom “Welcome” page, or maybe you wish to send them straight to their “My Account” > “Downloads” subsection.
No matter the why, for sure figuring out how to achieve a custom redirect once a user logs in from the “My Account” page is quite straightforward. The hook we’ll use is called “woocommerce_login_redirect” and allows us to trigger a safe redirect whenever a customer clicks on the LOGIN button. Enjoy!
PHP Snippet: On Customer Login, Redirect to Custom URL (as opposed to “My Account”)
By default, the process_login() WooCommerce function redirects to wc_get_page_permalink( ‘myaccount’ ), which is the My Account dashboard page URL. In the examples below we will try to redirect customers (and NOT administrators or other user roles) to a custom URL.
I will give you different redirect options inside the snippet, please make sure you choose only one and delete/comment out the others.
/**
* @snippet Custom Redirect @ WooCommerce My Account Login
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add_filter( 'woocommerce_login_redirect', 'tutoraspire_customer_login_redirect', 9999, 2 );
function tutoraspire_customer_login_redirect( $redirect, $user ) {
if ( wc_user_has_role( $user, 'customer' ) ) {
$redirect = get_home_url(); // homepage
//$redirect = wc_get_page_permalink( 'shop' ); // shop page
//$redirect = '/custom_url'; // custom URL same site
//$redirect = 'https://custom.url'; // custom URL other site
//$redirect = add_query_arg( 'password-reset', 'true', wc_get_page_permalink( 'myaccount' ) ); // custom My Account tab
}
return $redirect;
}