I am writing a plugin that fetches some extended user info from a remote service and I need it to execute its function each time a user logs in.
Is there a hook that gets fired after login that I can add an action to?
I am writing a plugin that fetches some extended user info from a remote service and I need it to execute its function each time a user logs in.
Is there a hook that gets fired after login that I can add an action to?
The action hook wp_login runs when the user logs in – it can run a simple function.
function do_anything() {
//do stuff
}
add_action('wp_login', 'do_anything');
documentation : https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/wp_login
The real breadwinner here is wp_authenticate
which has a bit of documentation. It passes an array with the given username and password, which gives you the opportunity to pass info to the remote service, if necessary.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/wp_authenticate
and to change the redirect URL after login, there is the filter login_redirect
: https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/login_redirect