wordpress plugin add_filter(login_redirect does not work

Question

I made a simple plugin from this example:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Redirect on login
Plugin URI: some URI
Description: Custom Redirect on login
Author: Some Autor
Version: 1.0
Author URI: some URI
*/

function my_login_redirect($redirect_to, $request){
global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();
//is there a user to check?
if(is_array($current_user->roles))
{
    //check for admins
    if(in_array("administrator", $current_user->roles))
       return home_url("/wp-admin/?administrator");
    else
        return home_url("?NOTadministrator");
}
}
add_filter("login_redirect", "my_login_redirect", 10, 3);

?>

It only works if you are already logged in.

Please try it - drop the plugin code in your WordPress plugins directory - activate it - make sure you are fully logged out - and it will only redirect you to the /wp-admin/?administrator if you have already logged in.

What do the 10, 3 represent anyway, in this case?

From the other examples on this website and other websites - people are making reference to the $user->ID instead of the global $user_ID and other information - but I do not see any full code that shows a full functioning copy paste plugin using these methods. I am not asking someone to do my work for me - I just would really need to see a full working example of this.

If you have a full working example that clearly shows all of the variable and values that are needed - can you please post it here? Thank you very much.

I'm adding another example and then going to jump off a bridge - I haven't wasted so much time on something since I first began programming.

I don't understand how login_redirect can work - if I can't determine the users information at the time it is called.

     function my_login_redirect(){


    if($user->ID){

        if($user->has_cap('manage_options')) {
            return home_url("/wp-admin/?administrator");
        }else{
            return home_url("?NOTadministrator");
        }

    }else{

        echo "WHY DOES $user->ID NOT HAVE ANY VALUE YET WHEN CALLING 'login_redirect'? How am I to decide where to send the user - if I do not know who the user is because - I can not get the user ID yet?!";

    }
 }

 add_filter('login_redirect', 'my_login_redirect', 10, 3);

Answer 1

• 10 represents the priority your function takes among the others filtering login_redirect
• 3 represents the number of arguments your function accepts.

See: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_filter