Autologin user after registration Wordpress

authentication, autologin, passwords, wordpress

Solution

Add below function to `functions.php` file

 function auto_login_new_user( $user_id ) {
        wp_set_current_user($user_id);
        wp_set_auth_cookie($user_id);
            // You can change home_url() to the specific URL,such as 
        //wp_redirect( 'http://www.wpcoke.com' );
        wp_redirect( home_url() );
        exit;
    }
 add_action( 'user_register', 'auto_login_new_user' );

Problem

I am trying to autologin a user after registration. I am trying this in `functions.php` file: ``` add_action( 'user_register', 'auto_login_user' ); function auto_login_user($user_id) { $user = new WP_User($user_id); $user_login_var = $user->user_login; $user_email_var = stripslashes($user->user_email); $user_pass_var = $user->user_pass; $creds = array(); $creds['user_login'] = $user_login_var; $creds['user_password'] = $user_pass_var; $creds['remember'] = true; $user = wp_signon( $creds, false ); if ( is_wp_error($user) ) echo $user->get_error_message(); } ``` I am getting ERROR: The password you entered for the username "TheNewUserCreated" is incorrect. Lost your password? How Can I take the password from the User object? Also because this is a custom registration process in template registration.php I tried to take it with $_POST and run the function in that file but I didnt have any success that way too... EDIT: Ok I am getting the encrypted password, so what is the solution here, how can I autologin the user? Maybe I can do this in registration.php page?

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