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When it comes to building themes or plugins in WordPress, you rarely want administrators, editors, subscribers, and so on to anything other than the dashboard just after they’ve logged in.

After all, these authors are usually loggin in to write posts, edit their information, or generally manage their content.

But if you’re building a more advanced theme or an application, then allowing users to view the dashboard may be outside the scope of what you’re looking to allow.

As such, here’s an easy to redirect non-admin users to another page after logging into WordPress. Note that this post was updated on December 13, 2012 thanks to the recommendations in Simon’s comment.

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I've updated some of the content in this post for more clarity thanks to Stephen's comment

When it comes to retrieving content outside of The Loop or retrieving content based on certain criteria, it’s usually a matter of setting up a custom query using WP_Query.

But sometimes, setting up a full custom query, executing the loop, then resetting the post data isn’t required.

Case in point: I was recently working on a project in which the client wanted a modal dialog to appear with the title and the text from a specific page. Easy enough: use get_page_by_title.

But there’s one minor gotcha that I’ve seen more than a few times when using this method. Here’s how to get post content by title and avoid the pitfalls of doing so.

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