WooCommerce ovverides my dashboard

Hello

I have the same problem, the solution was add a function to change redirection but now isn`t working on last Woocomerce version

add_filter( 'woocommerce_login_redirect', 'wc_custom_user_redirectx');

function wc_custom_user_redirectx( $redirect, $user ) {
	// Get the first of all the roles assigned to the user
	$role = $user->roles[0];

	$dashboard = admin_url();
	$myaccount = get_permalink( wc_get_page_id( 'myaccount' ) );

	if( $role == 'administrator' ) {
		//Redirect administrators to the dashboard
		$redirect = $dashboard;
	} elseif ( $role == 'shop-manager' ) {
		//Redirect shop managers to the dashboard
		$redirect = $dashboard;
	} elseif ( $role == 'editor' ) {
		//Redirect editors to the dashboard
		$redirect = $dashboard;
	} elseif ( $role == 'recepcionista' ) {
		//Redirect authors to the dashboard
		$redirect = $dashboard;
	} elseif ( $role == 'customer' || $role == 'subscriber' ) {
		//Redirect customers and subscribers to the "My Account" page
		$redirect = $myaccount;
	} else {
		//Redirect any other role to the previous visited page or, if not available, to the home
		$redirect = wp_get_referer() ? wp_get_referer() : home_url();
	}

	return $redirect;
}

So how do we fix this crap then?

The solution is add previous code and give that user role capabilities for ‘manage_woocommerce’ and ‘edit_posts’

This stupid feature is not stupid to all users, but should be off by default. If for some reason it is enabled, you can prevent the admin restriction with this in theme functions.php:

add_filter( 'woocommerce_prevent_admin_access', '__return_false' );

In my case, I needed to allow a single role into the dashboard.
My role had a custom capability, so I used that as a check:

add_filter('woocommerce_prevent_admin_access', 'allow_role_access_to_admin', 10, 1);
	function allow_role_access_to_admin($prevent_access) {
		if (current_user_can('{your-custom-capability}')) { //stick any check in here
			$prevent_access = false;
		}

		return $prevent_access;
	}

This way, I can still use the Woocommerce feature, but allow access to some roles.

The original way I had it, was:

add_filter('woocommerce_prevent_admin_access', 'allow_access_to_admin', 10, 1);
   function allow_access_to_admin($prevent_access) {
    $prevent_access = false;
    return $prevent_access;
}

Needless to say, Mike’s answer for overriding, is much quicker ??

Thanks Mike Jolley, please give us a verbose description on why this fix prevents redirection to MyAccount instead of say the built in WP Profile Editor page?

add_filter( ‘woocommerce_prevent_admin_access’, ‘__return_false’ );

I have no idea how this fix fits into the conceptual model for WooCommerce.

The fix worked!

Thanks, Fidget.

Mike Jolley’s simple fix worked. It would be nice if they built that option into their settings. I supposed when I next update WooCommerce, if will overwrite my hacks (there were a couple others).

Actually, that was a theme addition, so updating the theme would overwrite the hacks…