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When a user logs in, greet them by their name

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When a user logs in, greet them by their name

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- [Instructor] There's nothing like personalization. So let's make it so that when a user logs in, we greet them by their first name or if their first name doesn't exist, their username. We're going to need to redirect the user to a page in order to do this. So there are actually two functions, one for the redirect and one to display the user's name. Here are the requirements. Check to see if a user logs in. Redirect them to a page in your WordPress site that has the greeting via shortcode. Greet them by their display name. If there is no display name or no one is logged in, fall back to a generic greeting. I'm using hello there. This will be slightly different from using the wp_login action, so keep that in mind. With that, let's look at our starter code. So we have a couple of functions here you're going to need to fill in. One is the login_redirect. As a note, I will be redirecting them to a page that has the slug…

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