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I am new to wordpress, and trying to get my head around the idea of sessions and all. I read in a lot of places that session concept is not used in wordpress. Anyway, I downloaded the my-login-theme plugin. My question is, when a user navigates to some secured area, I want to check if that user is logged in or not. Once I check that, I want to get user details like email, and full name. Is this possible in wordpress?

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Use the is_user_logged_in() conditional tag (Codex ref) to determine if the current user is logged in.

Use the get_userdata() function (Codex ref) to return user data.

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You can use is_user_logged_in() to see if the user is logged in. You can use get_userdata() to get the logged in users info.

If you want to restrict access to pages, have you looked at using the plugin Members You can enable shortcodes and template tags to control restricted content to Roles.

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  • I'm still learning SE etiquette, so perhaps it's normal; but: why post almost exactly the same answer I did?
    – Chip Bennett
    Apr 15, 2011 at 17:10
  • If you look at the timestamps we both posted near the same time. So when I was typing my reply there wasn't any answers. You posted just ahead of me. Normally I would remove my answer but because I offer some other help I have left it up.
    – Scott
    Apr 15, 2011 at 17:54
  • Ah, that makes sense, then!
    – Chip Bennett
    Apr 15, 2011 at 17:57

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