--- title: "How to redirect members to their own profile entry after login" date: 2026-05-21 author: "Rafael Bennemann" link: "https://www.gravitykit.com/docs/gravityview/advanced/redirect-members-to-their-profile-after-login/" --- By default, when a member signs in to your site, WordPress sends them to its admin area. For a member directory, that is rarely what you want. A more useful destination is the member's own profile entry: the entry they created on registration. This article walks through how to set that up. There are two pieces: - A "My Profile" page that shows whichever member is logged in. - A login redirect that sends members to that page. ## Before you start You'll need: - A [member directory](https://www.gravitykit.com/multi-column-directory/) View built on your Gravity Forms registration form. - [GravityView Pro](https://www.gravitykit.com/products/advanced-filter/), which includes the Advanced Filter extension. - The Gravity Forms User Registration Add-On configured to create a WordPress user for each registration. GravityView [automatically links](https://www.gravitykit.com/docs/gravityview/advanced/understanding-how-an-entry-gets-associated-with-a-user/) each registration entry to the user it creates. ## 1. The "My Profile" page Duplicate your directory View; call the copy "My Profile" or whatever you like. Open its Filter & Sort tab and add an [Advanced Filter](https://www.gravitykit.com/docs/gravityview-pro/advanced-filter/how-to-show-only-results-submitted-by-the-current-user/) condition: **Created By** **is** **Currently Logged-in User**. Save. The copy inherits your directory's form and Single Entry Layout, so nothing else to design. If you want the "My Profile" page to look different from a directory entry, customize the Single Entry Layout in the copy. Create a regular WordPress page. Title it "My Profile" or anything you like; the URL slug becomes the path, e.g. `/my-profile/`. In the page content, add a Shortcode block with the [`[gventry]`](https://www.gravitykit.com/docs/gravityview/shortcodes/gventry-shortcode/) shortcode: ``` [gventry view_id="YOUR_VIEW_ID" entry_id="first"] ``` ``` [gventry view_id="YOUR_VIEW_ID" entry_id="first"] ``` Replace `YOUR_VIEW_ID` with the ID of the copy you just made. You can find the View ID by going to **Views** in the WordPress admin and editing the View; the ID is the number after `post=` in the URL. Save the page and note its URL; the login redirect below needs it. ### Why this works The `[gventry]` shortcode renders one entry using the View's Single Entry layout. The `entry_id="first"` argument tells it to grab the first entry the View returns. Because the View is filtered to "Created By is Currently Logged-in User", the only entries it returns are ones the visitor created. "First" of that filtered set is their own entry. So Alice visits `/my-profile/` and sees her own entry. Bob visits the same URL and sees his. Same URL, different content per visitor, no per-user URLs needed. If you want members to be able to edit their profile, add a [Link to Edit Entry field](https://www.gravitykit.com/docs/gravityview/edit-entry/user-edit-allow-users-to-edit-their-own-entries/) inside your View's Single Entry layout. ## 2. Send members to the page after they log in The redirect is the piece outside GravityView. Pick the option that matches how members sign in on your site. ### Gravity Forms Login widget If you have placed the Gravity Forms Login widget on your site, open its settings and set the **Login Redirect URL** field to the URL of your "My Profile" page. The widget redirects users there on successful login. See [User Registration Add-On Login Widget](https://docs.gravityforms.com/user-registration-widget/) on the Gravity Forms docs site. ### Gravity Forms login shortcode If you're using the Gravity Forms login shortcode on a page, pass the URL through the `login_redirect` attribute: ``` [gravityform action="login" login_redirect="https://yoursite.com/my-profile/"] ``` ``` [gravityform action="login" login_redirect="https://yoursite.com/my-profile/"] ``` See [Login Form Shortcode](https://docs.gravityforms.com/user-registration-login-shortcode/) on the Gravity Forms docs site. ### Standard WordPress login screen If your members sign in through the standard WordPress login screen at `/wp-login.php`, neither of the two options above applies to that path. The cleanest no-code option for that case is the [LoginWP plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/peters-login-redirect/) (formerly Peter's Login Redirect). After activating it, add a rule for the role your registered members get (usually Subscriber) pointing to your "My Profile" page URL. **Note**: the free version of LoginWP only intercepts the standard WordPress login screen. It doesn't intercept Gravity Forms login widget or shortcode submissions. Those have their own redirect setting, documented above. ## Handling logged-out visitors If a logged-out visitor lands on the "My Profile" page, the Advanced Filter returns no entries and they see a blank space where the profile should be. Options to handle this: - [Restrict the page to logged-in users](https://www.gravitykit.com/docs/gravityview/filter-and-sort-results/restrict-view-content-to-members/) with the free WordPress [Members plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/) or [Redirection](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/). - For developers, the [`gravityview/shortcodes/gventry/output`](https://www.gravitykit.com/docs/gravityview/shortcodes/gventry-shortcode/) filter overrides the output for logged-out users. ## Test it Log in as a non-admin test user in an incognito window. Admin accounts behave differently from regular members, so this only validates with a regular member account.