Comments on: WordPress Auto-Login for Friend/Ally Websites

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:31:06 +0000

Great plugin! Is it possible to auto-login users from any subdomain on a primary domain? I work with some sites that have several subdomains (dev.mysite.com, test.mysite.com, www.mysite.com), and I'd like all users coming from those sites to be logged in without having to add each site individually.

By: Dharmavirsinh Jhala

Dharmavirsinh Jhala — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:40:48 +0000

Hello Teena,
Please refer following reply on WordPress support forum:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/call-to-undefined-function-add_action
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I figured out what was causing the problem for me. I was trying to call add_action() from the main functions.php file in my WP root. Stopped giving me trouble when I moved the call to the functions.php file inside my current theme.
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I hope this will help.!

By: teena

teena — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:32:26 +0000

I am using this plugin, but it is throwing a fatal error. Please let me know how can i resolve it. I tried adding the add_action() call in wp-includes/functions.php, nothing worked out.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function add_action() in C:appsApacheApache2.2htdocswordpresswp-contentpluginsdg-auto-logindg-auto-login.php on line 64

By: Dharmavirsinh Jhala

Dharmavirsinh Jhala — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:27:35 +0000

Teena,
I guess for that we need to modify the code of this plugin. Now as you want it to be more dynamic instead of just ‘guest’ user login, I can see there are 2 possible options:
A) You already have users database synced:
Here you just need to pass username encrypted in query string or post data to your WP blog and there you need to tweak the Auto-Login plugin code to take values from post/query-string decode them and login the correct user.
B) You don’t have users database synced:
Here what you might want to do is pass encrypted username, credentials (role, password) in very secure (with decent encryption if https is not possible) and then in auto-login code you need to check that if the user already exists in the WP users table than you don’t need to create and just have that user login else add record for that user in the wp-users table with provided credentials and have him/her login. It will be just one time next time it will find the user and it will be logged in.

I hope this works for you. It will require little/more modification to the code depending upon your requirement. Good luck.

By: teena

teena — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:59:01 +0000

Hey I have a question with this plugin. Users need to auto login from any of the website (internal websites) to my blog. For example if there are 3 websites A,B,C which has access to my wordpress blog. Once the users logs in to those websites and access my blog url, if the user id matches with my blog they have to access the blog directly, orlese it needs to ask for login credentials. Instead of 'guests' how can i specify it for all users.

By: teena

teena — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:48:05 +0000

Appreciate if i get a solution ASAP

By: Dharmavirsinh Jhala

Dharmavirsinh Jhala — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:56:03 +0000

Hi Richard,

It's possible that you let your visitors login (auto-login) from specific page like www.example.org/pages/auto-login-page/

I am really sorry to reply you after really really long time.
I have made some corrections and you can download latest again and let me know if you find any trouble during implementation.

When you logout from guest login it will show you /wp-admin directory as it is the way WordPress treats logout event, if you don't want that for specific user you may need to change that code in WP.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 17:15:03 +0000

I have a client wanting to keep some information private on his website (login required to view certain content). But they want to be able to send email newsletters out that provides access to that private content whether the recipient of the newsletter has credentials or not. I thought maybe passing some sort of unique variable in the URLs embedded in the links in the newsletter might do the trick.
But now I'm wondering if this auto-login might be the right tool. Can you tell me if I'm on the right track? Thanks!
Jeff

By: Dharmavirsinh Jhala

Dharmavirsinh Jhala — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:43:01 +0000

Hi Fida,

If you have tables with mapping between your website and wordpress blog then you can set values in session and when your user clicks on blog link you can extend WP-Auto-Login plugin to verify login username/password hash from session and then you can have that user into WordPress with it's correct login credentials.

Let me know if you need further help.!

Good luck.

By: Fida

Fida — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 06:24:54 +0000

HI
i have a site having registration of users and logging in using the email and password.
I am stucked because i am not able to know how a user looged in from the site needs to logged to WP too.
Please let me know if there exists any plugin in which, when a users logged in from the site URL for Eg: www.mydomain.com/login.php
and logged in with his validate username and password, the word press blog also needs to be looged at the same time with the same password. There will be a tables for blogstoo where all the users have a record in the format of wp.

Thanks in advance

Fida