WordPress User Redirection / Auto Login After Registration

In a previous post, I shared a code snippet that redirects users to a custom page immediately after they log in to their account in your WordPress powered website.

In today’s tutorial, I will be sharing the ProfilePress guide and code snippet that redirects users to a custom page on the successful completion of their account registration.

This could come in handy if you want to redirect users to say a thank you or congratulatory page after registration.

To automatically logged user in (auto-login) and then redirect them to a custom page after registration, go to ProfilePress settings, open the Registration section and then check Auto-login after registration.

Having done this, users will now automatically be logged in after registration and then redirected to their WordPress dashboard by default.

To redirect them to a custom page or URL after the automatic login is done; go to Settings >> Redirection and setup the Login redirect.

Note: URL entered into the custom URL field takes precedence over a selected page.

Via Shortcode

You can automatically log in users to their account and then redirect them to a custom page, using the redirect attribute in ProfilePress registration shortcode.

For example, a registration page with the shortcode
[profilepress-registration id="1" redirect="https://xyz.com/welcome"] will log users in and then redirect them to https://xyz.com/welcome after they successfully register an account.

If you don’t want users to be logged in before the redirect happens, change “redirect” to “no-login-redirect” like so [profilepress-registration id="1" no-login-redirect="https://xyz.com/welcome"]

More info on the documentation page.

Using Code

Note that the codes shared below only work if the user registration is done in a custom front-end registration form. And the codes should go into your theme’s functions.php file or your site-specific / dummy plugin.

To redirect users to say a thank you or welcome page after registration, the code below does exactly that.

add_action( 'ppress_after_registration', 'pp_redirect_after_registration' );

function pp_redirect_after_registration() {

	$custom_page_url = 'https://xyz.com/thank-you/';

	wp_redirect( $custom_page_url );
	exit;
}

What if we want to redirect them based on the role they are assigned during registration? See the code below.

add_action( 'ppress_after_registration', 'pp_redirect_after_registration', 10, 3 );

function pp_redirect_after_registration( $form_id, $user_data, $user_id ) {

	$a = get_user_by( 'id', $user_id );
	//retrieve the user roles
	$user_roles = $a->roles;

	/**
	 * we'll redirect users with student role to https://xyz.com/welcome-student/
	 * and those with teacher role to https://xyz.com/welcome-teacher/
	 * and those with other roles to https://xyz.com/welcome/
	 */
	if ( in_array( 'student', $user_roles ) ) {
		$redirect = 'https://xyz.com/welcome-student/';
	}
	elseif ( in_array( 'teacher', $user_roles ) ) {
		$redirect = 'https://xyz.com/welcome-teacher/';
	}
	else {
		// all other users
		$redirect = 'https://xyz.com/welcome/';
	}

	wp_redirect( $redirect );
	exit;
}

It is also worth noting that automatic login and redirection of users after registration can be done too via ProfilePress’ ppress_after_registration action hook like so:

add_action( 'ppress_after_registration', 'pp_redirect_after_registration', 10, 3 );

function pp_redirect_after_registration( $form_id, $user_data, $user_id ) {

	wp_set_auth_cookie( $user_id );
	wp_set_current_user( $user_id );

	$custom_page_url = 'https://xyz.com/welcome/';

	wp_redirect( $custom_page_url );
	exit;
}

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