WooCommerce: Deny Automatic Login Upon Registration @ My Account

If you’ve enabled customer registration on the My Account page, you will know that a new user is automatically logged in as soon as they successfully register.

This is great – however in certain cases it could be “dangerous” (for example, if you need to manually approve each user).

As I was searching through the WooCommerce plugin code, I found a great action filter that can immediately stop this from happening – I love one-liners! So, here’s the quick fix.

Right after registration, user is not logged in and a success notification is displayed instead.

PHP Snippet: Deny Auto Login After Registration @ WooCommerce My Account

/**
 * @snippet       Deny Login Upon Registration @ WooCommerce My Account
 * @how-to        Get CustomizeWoo.com FREE
 * @author        Rodolfo Melogli
 * @compatible    WooCommerce 3.7
 * @donate $9     https://businessbloomer.com/bloomer-armada/
 */

add_filter( 'woocommerce_registration_auth_new_customer', '__return_false' );

Where to add this snippet?

You can place PHP snippets at the bottom of your child theme functions.php file (delete "?>" if you have it there). CSS, on the other hand, goes in your child theme style.css file. Make sure you know what you are doing when editing such files - if you need more guidance, please take a look at my free video tutorial "Where to Place WooCommerce Customization?"

Does this snippet (still) work?

Please let me know in the comments if everything worked as expected. I would be happy to revise the snippet if you report otherwise (please provide screenshots). I have tested this code with Storefront theme, the WooCommerce version listed above and a WordPress-friendly hosting on PHP 7.3.

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16 thoughts on “WooCommerce: Deny Automatic Login Upon Registration @ My Account”

Boutique PcLanD
July 14, 2022

Hello,

Unfortunately the code does not work permanently, I have customers who are not disconnected!

Weird

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  July 18, 2022
  
  Yep, that’s weird, I don’t see why it shouldn’t work all the times. Do you have some sort of server-side cache?
  
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  1. Boutique PcLanD
    August 17, 2022
    
    Yes it’s a dedicated server, with php 7.4.30 then apache and ngnix proxy!
    
    I also have a module that allows the activation of customer accounts, this sends an email to the customer to confirm his mailbox! Maybe it’s a conflict?
    
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    1. Rodolfo Melogli
      August 22, 2022
      
      Could be. Disable all plugins but Woo and switch theme, and test the snippet again
      
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sg sg
April 16, 2021

How can we do the reverse, login the customers when they checkout in Woocommerce?

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  April 20, 2021
  
  Wait, doesn’t that work like that already?
  
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Mark
November 5, 2020

Hi

Do you perhaps have advice for auto log in for an elementor widget?

Mark

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  November 25, 2020
  
  No idea sorry
  
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sagarweb
June 20, 2020

hi, this works but is there a way to change the message?
i used a customer registration redirect after registration to redirect to another page but it only worked in php 5 but it doesnt seem to work on php 7

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  June 28, 2020
  
  Hi there, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!
  
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Jordan
February 24, 2020

This is a great little snippet. Is it possible to use this filter to deny auto login after customer checkout completion (and when a new account is automatically created for the customer)?

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  February 27, 2020
  
  Hey Jordan, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!
  
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Stef
August 26, 2019

This is great Rodolpho! It’s nice to have them confirm in their email in case bots are creating accounts with other people’s emails. I see it often.

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  August 29, 2019
  
  Great!
  
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  1. Serge
    April 10, 2020
    
    Hi,
    
    Its a great website and good source of usefull tips and recomendations. However this snippet does not work for me. User still auto login during checkout in Woocommerce.
    I have tried other snippets but none of them work.
    I just don’t understand if I need to enable or disable Woccomerce default function in order to make it work?
    
    Thanks
    
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    1. Rodolfo Melogli
      April 14, 2020
      
      Try disabling all plugins and theme and use this snippet with latest WooCommerce only. LMK
      
      Reply

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