CorFun Inc. is pleased to announce that the popular component User Group Home Page Login Redirect for Joomla 2.5 is now available.  This component allows you to set up redirect URL on Joomla Login based on the user group of the person logging in. 

Just put the component name in the Redirect on Login within the login component, set up your user groups by selecting them from a drop-down box, direct where the user should be redirected on sign-in and you are done.   

Have you ever wanted to set up a custom home page specifically for the person signing in?  Now you can.  This Log in Redirect component allows you define an unlimited number of redirects to custom home pages.  You can set up a unique user group for each registered member,  or by Joomla User Group.  You can define a custom home page for the individual users or a custom home page based on User Groups.   

Virtuemart has its own set of shopper groups. These control important things such as pricing for products. Now, thanks to the VM Shopper Group Login Redirect component from CorFun, your shopper groups can also control what pages your shoppers/users see when they login to your site!

User Group Login Redirect Home Page lets Webmasters send users to their own unique home pages when they log in. The redirection is based on the User Group such as Registered, Author, Publisher, etc. The component also works with JUGA, JACLPlus, and some other common ACL extensions. Using this component, Webmasters can send users at log in to a page that has the most appropriate information for them. User Group Login Redirect Home Page works with most login modules such as the basic Joomla Login Module and the CB Login Module. However, we recently discovered that the Virtuemart Login Module was coded in such a way that it would not work with our component. So we created our own version and have included it in our download package!

CorFun, Inc. has been making extensive use of the K2 Joomla component in our client projects for all kinds of things from catalogs to blogs to community sites. One of K2's greatest strengths is the ability to assign users to customizable User Groups. This is a great capability, but did have one limitation. When users log in, it is often desired to route them to specific pages based on their User Groups.

You have a Website that specializes in local news. You have pages dedicated to various cities, replete with news, advertising, and all kinds of goodies for people who live in that area. You want visitors to your site to make it to their pages and get the best information for them.

How do you route them there in a Joomla environment? Easy - you have them register for your site using Community Builder, pick their city from a dropdown box, and then login! Assuming, of course, that you have the Login Redirect for Community Builder Component from CorFun. This new component allows Webmasters to map specific entries in a CB profile field to different URLs. When a user logs in, he or she goes directly to the page you feel is most relevant based on their profile!

The native login module for Joomla along with custom login modules (such as the one from Community Builder) have long allowed webmasters to specify a single page or URL to show when a user logs in. That is very helpful to route users, for example, to their profiles or to a page of the latest news or a list of the latest offers. 

For many sites, that functionality is just fine. Often, however, Webmasters find they need to display a different 'welcome' screen for Registered users, versus Authors, versus Editors, versus Publishers, etc. Then the native login module functionality can get somewhat restrictive. 

If you run a membership-based site, using Account Expiration Component (AEC) and JACLPLus for example, the problem is even more pronounced. You can sell a user a membership using AEC and assign that user to a specific User Group created via JACLPlus. However, the login module will show all users the same screen on logging in. Webmasters often need to get specific information to specific User Groups.  Suppose Free Membership users should go to a screen encouraging them to upgrade, while Platinum-level users should go straight to a page full of goodies just for them? The native functionality of Joomla simply doesn't allow this to happen!