Redirect after Login on WordPress

This should solve your problem. Adapted from an answer found here.

Add the following snippet of code in the functions.php file of your theme:

function admin_default_page() {  return '/new-dashboard-url';}add_filter('login_redirect', 'admin_default_page');

The accepted answer is very wrong. One should never be modifying the WordPress Core. Not only will edits be lost at a given update, some changes you make on a whim may compromise other functionality or even endanger the security of your site.

Action Hooks & Filters are included within the core to allow modifying functionality without modifying code.

An example of using the login_redirect filter to redirect certain users can be found here and is a much more robust solution to your problem.

For your specific problem, you want to do this:

function login_redirect( $redirect_to, $request, $user ){    return home_url('news.php');}add_filter( 'login_redirect', 'login_redirect', 10, 3 );

This may help. Peter's Login Redirect

Redirect users to different locations after logging in and logging out.

Define a set of redirect rules for specific users, users with specific roles, users with specific capabilities, and a blanket rule for all other users. Also, set a redirect URL for post-registration. This is all managed in Settings > Login/logout redirects.

You can use the syntax [variable]username[/variable] in your URLs so that the system will build a dynamic URL upon each login, replacing that text with the user's username. In addition to username, there is "userslug", "homeurl", "siteurl", "postid-23", "http_referer" and you can also add your own custom URL "variables"...