Auto Login User After Registration on WordPress Site

So you want to cut the chase and make the whole process of registration and login as fast as possible? While some want to be judicious with who signs up on their sites, one request we regularly received was for automatically logging in the user after successful registration. So here’s a quick tutorial on how to auto-login a user right after registration form submission.

Obviously, for auto-login to work, you need to turn on user auto-approval. You can configure Auto-Approval from Global Settings → User Accounts → Account Activation Method selector.

Also the form must be a WordPress user registration form. You can control this from General Settings in the Form Dashboard.

Enabling Auto-Login

We’ll use a simple generic form for this demonstration. Auto-login setting is specific to each form. Therefore, we will find it inside Form Dashboard of individual forms in the Accounts settings. It will only appear if the “Also create WP User account?” checkbox is checked. We must also select the role that should be assigned to the registrant after successful form submission. Subscriber is always the safest choice. Or we can create custom roles using RegistrationMagic’s built in User Role Manager. Alternatively, we can also let users pick their role by enabling “Allow Users Choice of Roles” option.

Let’s turn our setting on and check the Force Login after Registration? checkbox.

We’re are all set now. Let’s test it out. To start with, here’s our form. Nothing fancy.

Testing Submission & Auto-Login After Registration 

Filling it out now:

Submission successful.

And… the page will now refresh and we are logged in as expected.

This is how anyone can use RegistrationMagic to register users and auto login user after registration successfully. We hope this will be useful for a lot of folks out there. If you feel we are missing something, feel free to give us a shout and maybe you will see it in the next release. Until next time!