Comments on: Forget User Info

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 03:13:19 +0000

Hi there!
I was just wondering if there is any way to adjust the comment cookie? It seems that wordpress comments only remember a commentor for a day, I would like to increase this so regular commentors don't have to keep typing their details in. Is it possable?

By: Mark J

Mark J — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 22:12:01 +0000

Just a little update for people using themes in Wordpress 1.3 or above:

Instead of editing wp-comments.php you'll have to edit comments.php in your theme directory. If it isn't there, just follow the directions like normal.

By: james

james — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 02:19:02 +0000

sorry for so many comments!

just wanted to let you know that it actually does seem to be working now.

my only guess is that I was doing something in the wrong order when I was deleted my cookies or I had another window open.

anyway, thanks for the advice!

By: james

james — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 01:47:18 +0000

Thanks Mark J, but still does not work. I am actually just trying to work with the user login so that the next person who uses the computer cannot enter the admin area. But even after dumping my cookies it seems if I log in and close my browser, when I open it again I can go straight into the admin area without logging in.

This is a huge issue to me because the whole point of my weblogs are for people who are traveling to us it, so as it is, every computer in every internet cafe they use now has access to the admin area (if they forget to log out, which is very likely).

Well, I am going to keep looking for a fix to this problem. Thanks for the help.

By: Mark J

Mark J — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 22:48:11 +0000

James, you may need to flush the old cookie from your browser's cache

By: james

james — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 22:45:55 +0000

oops, wrong section, sorry. was asking about the main login.

By: james

james — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 22:43:49 +0000

Hi,

I just found this guide and can't seem to get it to work. Any chance you can help me out?

I change the code as suggested.

setcookie('wordpressuser_'.$cookiehash, $user_login, NULL, COOKIEPATH);
setcookie('wordpresspass_'.$cookiehash, md5($user_pass), NULL, COOKIEPATH);

but I still am permenently logged in, even after I close my browser. I am using wordpress 1.2.1

Is that all there was to it? or am i missing something?

Thanks!

By: Mama Write

Mama Write — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 00:01:40 +0000

Various WordPress Links
Rather than ping ScriptyGoddess multiple times and clog my sideblog with even more WordPress links, I decided to plop 'em all here. I'm going to give WordPress a try again on my course website, since there are various hacks that…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 16:21:06 +0000

Mark: my reference to setting cookies with null timeout (and hence closing at the browser session) was in reference to those that blog from work (posting in general) and would like to not have to worry about forgetting to log out - my apologies for not making that clearer.

By: typedby.com

typedby.com — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 21:44:49 +0000

Forget user info
I implemented a Scriptygoddess hack that allows people who comment on this site to delete their user info (name, email and site address) after posting a comment. This feature is for those people who use a shared computer and want to make sure that th…