How to Check if User is Logged In WordPress

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When you are creating WordPress plugins, you may want to know if the WordPress user is logged in before you can proceed with other events.

If you want to know how to check if the user is logged in, I will share with you in this post the code that you can use to check the user’s logged-in status.

In most cases, this code can be used in a WordPress theme or plugin to determine the status of the user.

WordPress Check If User is Logged In

The main reason why you should always check if the user is logged in when creating a WordPress theme or plugin is for security purposes.

Secondly, you may want to verify if the user is logged in so that you only show certain information to logged-in users and do not show it to users who are not logged in.

There are several other reasons why you should check if the user is logged in but these are the most common reasons.

WP Function: is_user_logged in

This WordPress function is used to check if the user is logged in.

By default, this function works like the conditional tags in themes that check if the template is a page or post, etc.

This function evaluates to either true or false when the user is not logged in.

is_user_logged_in()

This function can be used in an action hook added to the functions.php to find if the user is logged in before you proceed to do other things.

An example of checking if the user is logged in through an action hook is as follows:

function check_if_user_is_loggedin_function()
{
    if ( is_user_logged_in() ) 
    {
        // code
    }
}
add_action('init', 'check_if_user_is_loggedin_function');

You can also check if the user is logged in outside the functions.php file in a custom plugin or somewhere in your theme files using the code below:

if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {

    echo 'Welcome, registered user!';

} else {

    echo 'Welcome, visitor!';

};

When you add this code to the index.php you should see the results displayed if the user is logged in or not.

You can also use this way of checking if the user is logged in to accomplish various tasks like creating a redirect after the user is logged in in WooCommerce.

Joe

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How to Check if User is Logged In WordPress

WordPress Check If User is Logged In

WP Function: is_user_logged in

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