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Skip User Registration For Logged In Users

Last updated | Written by 43 Comments

  • November 16th, 2015: Update to work with GFUR v3.0.beta1+. Props to GF team member Richard Vav.

If you’re using the Gravity Forms User Registration Add-on, this snippet will allow you to skip registration for users who are logged in when they submit the form.

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<?php
/**
* Skip Registration for Logged In Users
* https://gravitywiz.com/2012/04/24/skip-user-registration-for-logged-in-users/
* Works for GF User Registration 3.0 and greater.
*/
add_filter( 'gform_is_delayed_pre_process_feed', 'maybe_delay_feeds', 10, 4 );
function maybe_delay_feeds( $is_delayed, $form, $entry, $slug ) {
if ( is_user_logged_in() && $slug == 'gravityformsuserregistration' ) {
return gf_user_registration()->has_feed_type( 'create', $form );
}
return $is_delayed;
}
add_action( 'gform_pre_process', 'maybe_skip_validation' );
function maybe_skip_validation( $form ) {
if ( is_user_logged_in() && function_exists( 'gf_user_registration' ) && gf_user_registration()->has_feed_type( 'create', $form ) ) {
remove_filter( 'gform_validation', array( gf_user_registration(), 'validate' ) );
}
}
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This snippet has been updated to work with the very latest version of the Gravity Forms User Registration plugin (3.0.beta1+). If you’re not ready to upgrade, or need to accomplish this functionality on an earlier version, use this snippet instead.

This snippet was written to assist a fellow who had configured a form that allowed users to optionally register an account on the site. This much is handled out of the box by the GF User Registration Add-on.

The issue arose when users, who opted to create an account on their initial submission, neglected to click the checkbox which opted them out of creating an account on their subsequent submissions. This resulted in a validation error; the submitted email was already registered to a user on the site!

Of course it was! It is the very email the user previously created an account with. The solution? If the user is logged in skip the registration completely. Be sure to display a message somewhere on your form instructing users to login if they already have an account.

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Comments

  2. Fabienne Wintle says

    Hi, is there a way to actually display the form to non logged in users if user registration (update user) is turned on? I have a form that I would like both logged in and logged out users to use, and user registration is enabled with conditional logic to only apply to users that are logged in. However, even with this logic being applied the form does not display if users are logged out. Which doesn’t make sense.

    So I found your gist which does the opposite of what I need and was wondering if you had something to achieve my objective?

    Reply

    • Ibraheem says

      Hi David, I’m having this issue also, so I’d be grateful if you have a solution. When selecting ‘Update User’ for the form action, the form then seems to be locked for users who are not logged in. The use case is for ensuring that logged in users don’t have to fill out information they’ve already entered in the past, but still allow guest users to submit as well (without creating a new user of course). Do you know of a solution to this?

  3. Jeffrey says

    I added the code to my functions.php , but now when I fill in my form the confirmation email from the form does not arrive to my email…

    Reply

    • David Smith says

      Hi Jeffrey, this doesn’t interact with the confirmation functionality so it is unlikely that this snippet is interfering with any core Gravity Forms functionality. If you’re a Gravity Perks customer, we’ll be happy to provide support via the support form.

  4. Seb says

    Is it possible to customize this code? I would like to do following:

    If Email Address exists skip registration and update data for non-logged-in-users

    Thx

    Reply

  5. Kev Xaveus says

    noob question: where does the snippet need to be pasted? Does it go in the theme’s functions.php or the WP-includes functions.php?

    Does it go at the top or end of the PHP file and does it go within the main <PHP? content or does it keep its own PHP bracket?

    Could you post a screenshot of it pasted as it should be please?

    Reply

  9. Russell Weller says

    Hi. I am trying to modify your snippet to skip registering the user if a user already exists. Having some problems though. Wondered if you might be able to help …

    Here’s what I’ve got so far, but the registration goes through even though the value of Form ID 1, Field ID 11 matches an existing user, which then throws an error on the front-end since the username already exists.

    [code removed]

    Reply

  10. Naser says

    Great Post!

    I have some other remaining problems with Gravity Form :

    1.) I would like to completely disappear User Registration form as an option to menu and the page for Login Users.

    2.) In an other form under Restrictions I have use “Require user to be logged in” but instead of “Require login message” I would like to make redirect user to login page.

    Do you have any idea, how to implement all the above?

    Thank You!

    Reply

    • David Smith says

      1 – Install the Members plugin and modify the user role for your users so that they do not have the “gravityforms_user_registration” capability. This will prevent users from seeing the User Registration menu item.

      2 – I would bind a function to the gform_pre_enqueue_scripts action. It passes the $form object as the first parameter. If the $form[‘requiresLogin’] option is set and the user is not logged in, you can use wp_redirect() to redirect to the URL of your choice.

  11. barbara schendel says

    This gets me close to what I need, thank you! One question — if it skips registration, will it still promote the person’s user role? My form charges money and promotes them to a different user role. Still need this if user is already logged in. (and I would like to not have to create two separate forms if possible since that just seems so inelegant!) Thanks!

    Reply

  12. Rochel says

    I’m not sure if this solution would work for me and I’m hoping someone can help me tweak it or point me in the right direction. I have a gravity forms registration form for an annual event that is hooked up with paypal and charges a registration fee and creates a user account once the payment goes through.

    The problem is, that I have people returning to the event this year who need to pay a registration fee and need to update their info. through the registration form but their info is already associated with a wordpress user. I can’t disable the User Registration add-on because there are new people registering for the event using this same form and I need the form to go ahead and make them a user account. I’m also not sure I can create a separate form without confusing visitors and having them give up.

    Any ideas would be a big help.

    Thanks!

    Reply

    • David Smith says

      Hi Rochel,

      The easiest way to do this will simply be using two different forms. I don’t think users will be too confused by a quick message at the top of the form along the lines of “If you’re already a member, please renew here.” You could take it a step further and if they’re already logged in, just redirect them to the renewal form if they try to access the the registration form.

      The real benefit of using two separate forms is that you can use the User Registration add-on to handle updated the existing user on the renewal form to indicate that their account is good for another year. You could do this with a single form but it would be have to be custom coded.

    • David Smith says

      You can use the {user:meta_key} merge tag in any Default Value field and then apply conditional logic based on that populated field to handle other form conditions.

  15. Andy says

    This doesnt work. I pasted into functions.php and i still get email is already registered. pls help. thx

    Reply

    • David Smith says

      Hi Andy, looks like I missed something pretty obvious. Overriding the validation! The snippet has been updated. Give it a shot. :)

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