Redirection After Registration
After searching high and low for an unobtrusive method of redirecting users to a custom URL after registering at a WordPress-powered site, I finally resorted to (gasp) hacking the core. I simply could not find a better way of doing it that didn’t require a ton of additional code. I found several ways of redirecting users to various URLs after logging in and out, but absolutely nothing seems to exist on redirecting users to, say, the home page, or better yet, back to the current page after registering as a subscriber (or whatever role the Admin has set for new registrations). Indeed, the only way to direct a user to some page other than the default WordPress “Registration complete. Please check your e-mail.” screen (which looks just like the WP Login page, btw) is to hack the wp-login.php file.
Thus, for the sake of remembering this technique, helping others, and/or “inspiring” someone to find a solution, here’s how to hack WordPress to change the page that users are directed to after they register (via submission of a username and email address). First, open the wp-login.php file and find the line that says, “wp_redirect('wp-login.php?checkemail=registered');”. That’s the key right there. To change the location, replace the part that says, “wp-login.php?checkemail=registered” with the URL to which you would like to direct the newly registered users. You may use full URLs or even relative paths to a specific file. That’s all there is to it. It’s still hacking the core, but not by much ;)
Remember, if you’re going to hack the core, make a note of the change(s) and refer to it before/after each subsequent upgrade.
