WP-Members: Automatically login after registration
WP-Members is a fantastic plugin for securing various areas of your WordPress site for access by registered users. While extremely versatile, not everything can be controlled through the settings alone.
An often-requested feature is for the plugin to automatically login a user after they have registered. Unfortunately, this functionality is unavailable in the current version of the plugin. However, by adding an action to WP-Members’ wpmem_post_register_data
tag, it becomes possible to add this extra functionality. The following can be added to your plugin file, or even to your theme’s functions.php file:
add_action('wpmem_post_register_data', 'my_registration_hook', 1); function my_registration_hook($fields) { $user_login = $fields[username]; $user_id = $fields[ID]; wp_set_current_user($user_id); wp_set_auth_cookie($user_login); do_action('wp_login', $user_login); wp_set_current_user($fields[ID]); }
Note: At the time of writing, the current production version of WP-Members is 2.8.2