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I'm manually creating users programmatically, and I want to sign in the newly created user. WP makes it easy to access the hashed password, but not the plaintext version. Is there a way to use wp_signon() without the plaintext password?

I found one person who claims to have done this here, but it didn't work for me.

THANKS!

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I think you can just assign the user object of the user you just created to the current_user global variable – One Trick Pony May 28 '12 at 13:27

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wp_set_auth_cookie() will log a user in without having to know their password.

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This worked great. However, when I use it, the conditional is_user_logged_in() doesn't seem to work. Do you know if it's looking at something different than the cookies? – Emerson May 28 '12 at 13:44
@Emerson - what hook are you logging them in on? it has to be before headers are sent. also try to wp_set_current_user before logging them in. – Milo May 28 '12 at 13:47
I actually wasn't calling it from a hook at all. I just added wp_set_auth_cookie() into my signin function. I guess I need to rethink that. I'll also lookup wp_set_current_user and report back. Thank you very much for your help on this! – Emerson May 28 '12 at 13:59

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