‘woocommerce_new_customer_data’ hook not saving customer info

Hi all,

I had a perfectly working code that stopped working after upgrade to Woo and WP (currently running WP 5.7 and Woo 5.1.0)

function rl_save_extra_register_fields($customer_id){
    if(isset($_POST['billing_first_name'])){  update_user_meta($customer_id,'first_name',sanitize_text_field($_POST['billing_first_name']));
        

    // Update user role
    $user = new WP_User($customer_id);  
    $user->set_role('customer_pending');   

}
add_action('woocommerce_created_customer','rl_save_extra_register_fields');

I extended normal user registration form with extra fields and want to change user role.
Code used to work, now user data is not updated.

What I checked/tested:
1. Made sure my function fires
2. Made sure correct $customer_id is used
3. Made sure there is nothing else uses same action and overrides my changes (dumped $wp_filter[‘woocommerce_created_customer’])

I then looked through the Woo code — nothing out of ordinary.(function wc_create_new_customer()) Standard WP function to create user and id of user inserted in database is passed to action. Should work, but it does not.
I tried to change user role via ‘woocommerce_created_customer’ filter and that works.

I also tried to create an WC_Customer object instead of WP_User:

$user = new WC_Customer($customer_id);
$user->set_role('customer_pending');

Same!

Any ideas why my code stopped working and user data can not be changed via ‘woocommerce_created_customer’ action?

Thanks,
Rudolf

• This topic was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by rudolfl.