Automattic / Automattic/wp-calypso
Social Sign Up: Offer to login if account already exists
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Description
### Details
On https://wordpress.com/start/user, if a user tries to sign up with a social account that is already registered in WP.com, instead of being redirected to `/home`, they're sent to `/start/domains`.
That's fine if they don't have any site. The problem is that the session cookie is not set, so if they close that page and open https://wordpress.com/, they're shown the logged-out landing page again.
### Done is
- [ ] When the user signs in with "Continue with Google" from the signup flow **and already has a social WordPress.com account**, then set the login cookie right away (instead of at the end of the signup flow, which is what happens for a new user).
- [ ] User is redirected to `/home` instead of `/start/domains` if they already have a site
- [ ] When the user successfully signs in through the signup flow, dispatch a new event.
### Related
p1657729373359479/1657702289.138929-slack-C0347E545HR.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start at the signup flow entry point at /start/user and trace the "Continue with Google" path for accounts that already exist. Check the session-cookie behavior and redirects to /home or /start/domains, then verify the three "Done is" conditions, including dispatching a new event after successful sign-in.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- authentication, frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100