Buddypress trick:Redirect Users to their profile on login

I found so many people discussing this on the buddypress forum, so I went ahead and thought to experiment a little.

You are going to need this trick if you are Buddypress site owner/developer and want to redirect your users to their profile on login.
My goal is:

• Redirect a user to their profile, whether they login through yoursite.com/wp-login.php or any other page(In buddypress, we usually see a login box at all site  pages )
• If site admin is logging in from front page of site, redirect back to front page.
• If site admin is logging from the site back end, i.e  site.com/wp-login.php, send him to dashboard(wpmu dashboard)

So, I experimented a little and the filter “login_redirect” saved me a lot of hassle.

here is the code snippet to make it happen.

/*let us filter where to redirect */

add_filter("login_redirect","bpdev_redirect_to_profile",10,3);

function bpdev_redirect_to_profile($redirect_to_calculated,$redirect_url_specified,$user)
{
if(empty($redirect_to_calculated))
$redirect_to_calculated=admin_url();

/*if the user is not site admin,redirect to his/her profile*/
if(!is_site_admin($user->user_login))
return bp_core_get_user_domain($user->ID );
else
return $redirect_to_calculated; /*if site admin or not logged in,do not do anything much*/

}

Put it inside your plugins/bp-custom.php or create a new php file and put this in mu-plugins folder.
I Hope It helps.
Note: Now there is a plugin for it, you can download it from here
http://buddydev.com/buddypress/bp-redirect-to-profile-plugin-redirect-users-to-their-profile-on-login-on-buddypress-sites/

and yeh! do not forget to let me know, how it went with you, you experiences.

-:)

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