php wordpress password change - logging me out!

Question

I\'m trying to build a simple wordpress password change script of my own (well, based on a plugin really) - the password is successfully changed - but it logs me out after t

Answer 1

Was linked here from another post, and wanted to give an updated solution to this problem, as some of these solutions (especially modifying wpdb->query directly) aren't best practice anymore.

Update the user's password using wp_set_password(), and then log the user back in, using wp_signon().

wp_signon will create the authentication cookie for you, as other users have suggested, but in a much more streamlined way.

function create_new_password_for_user($new_password){
    //Get the current user's details, while they're still signed in, in this scope.
     $current_user = wp_get_current_user();
     $current_user_id = $current_user->ID;
     $users_login = $current_user->user_email;

    //set their new password (this will trigger the logout)
    wp_set_password($new_password, $current_user_id);

    //setup the data to be passed on to wp_signon
    $user_data = array(
            'user_login'     => $users_login,
            'user_password'    => $new_password,
            'remember'        => false
        );

    // Sign them back in.
    $result = wp_signon( $user_data );

    if(is_wp_error($result)){
      //do something with an error, if there is one.
    }else{
      //do something with the successful change. 
    }
}