Gravity Forms
+ Auto Login

In modern web applications, the registration-to-onboarding transition is the single most vulnerable stage in the customer lifecycle. Industry analytics consistently demonstrate that forcing newly registered users to navigate to a generic wp-login.php page, re-enter their username, and type their password a second time causes a massive 30% to 40% drop-off in user engagement. For membership portals, SaaS applications, and e-learning platforms, this friction translates directly into lost revenue, abandoned carts, and frustrated customers.

The Gravity Forms Auto Login Premium Add-on completely eliminates this bottleneck by bridging Gravity Forms' robust data capture with WordPress's native session authentication layer. Operating seamlessly on top of the official Gravity Forms User Registration Add-on, this extension injects an intuitive "Enable Auto Login" toggle directly into the user registration feed settings. When an applicant submits the form, the plugin hooks into the gform_user_registered lifecycle hook.

Upon user record provisioning, the add-on immediately executes wp_clear_auth_cookie() to purge any pre-existing or stale session tokens, assigns the newly created user ID via wp_set_current_user($user_id), and issues authentic, cryptographically secure WordPress session cookies using wp_set_auth_cookie($user_id, $should_remember, is_ssl()). Because the extension intelligently enforces synchronous feed execution (ensure_feed_is_sync), the authentication cookies are safely attached to the initial HTTP response headers before any confirmation redirect occurs.

Furthermore, the add-on provides robust native support for Email Activation workflows. If your portal requires double opt-in verification, the add-on intercepts the activation endpoint (gfur_activation / gpal). When the user clicks the activation link in their confirmation email, the system verifies their account, validates their security token, and simultaneously logs them into WordPress in a single atomic action—immediately redirecting them to their personalized member dashboard.

The Auto Login Add-on operates on an intelligent, synchronous session orchestration pipeline that guarantees immediate authentication without breaking Gravity Forms confirmation redirects.

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