Automatically login user across multisite

Question

When new site is created on my multisite installation, I automatically add the new user to the main site (because I need him to order the product):

add_user_to_blog( 1, $user_id, 'customer' );

I'd like to have the users automatically login them to all their sites, as soon as they login to one of the sites they belong to.

I hoped to hook to the wp_login action and just set the auth_cookie for each sites the user belongs to, something along these lines:

add_action('wp_login','autologin');
function autologin($user_login, $user) {
   $user_blogs = get_blogs_of_user($user->ID);
   foreach ($blogs as $blog) {
     switch_to_blog($blog->blog_id);
     wp_set_current_user ( $user->ID );
     wp_set_auth_cookie  ( $user->ID);
     restore_current_blog();
   }
}

That doesn't work though. Is there a workaround for this?

Answer 1

You can add each user automatically to each blog in your network. As example the follow simple function to add a user id to a blog id. If you loop about all sites and add the user to each blog with a role.

function join_site( $user_id = 0, $blog_id = 0, $role = 'editor' ) {

    if ( 0 === $user_id )
        return false;

    if ( 0 === $blog_id )
        return false;

    if ( ! is_user_logged_in() )
        return false;

    if ( ! is_user_member_of_blog( $user_id, $blog_id ) )
        add_user_to_blog( $blog_id, $current_user->ID, $role );
}

You can run this function on the register of a user or also on the login. On the register is smaller in the performance, only one request after register, not each login. But the function checks, if the user a part of the plugin, with the help of is_user_member_of_blog().

The benefit is, that each user is a real part of the blog, maybe with different roles. The result is, that you have all possibilities, also for other plugin to run functions the users.

For the login you should set the constant to define always the same cookie.

define( 'COOKIE_DOMAIN', '' );

That give the users the possibility to login in each site of the network, if the user is added to the site. For more in this context see this q/a.