You can read cookies both on the front- and back-end sides. For the front-end, you have to provide both links, and show only the desired one with javascript. Use document.cookie.indexOf(‘cookie_name’) to check the cookie presence. For the back-end, you can read the special $_COOKIE variable to check the cookie presence in you template and change … Read more
I figured out the answer myself and I’ll post it here in case anyone else has this problem. Basically in WP 3.9.1, wp_insert_post() checks the current logged in user for account capabilities (at least this is what I assume). Since I was connecting over cURL, there is no logged in user so the capability checks … Read more
I don’t know that I would use cookies for this as the user could just modify their cookie to match their current IP. You could store the user’s IP as user meta at signup and then compare that to their IP during subsequent logins via the wp_authenticate_user filter. Sample code (untested): add_action( ‘user_register’, ‘wpse157630_add_user_ip’, 10, … Read more
Usage of wp_send_json_success and wp_redirect at the same time
Site requires login. How to publish login-free RSS feed?
Look carefully at your .htaccess and apache configuration, Your server is intercepting the request. Unless I’m mistaken, I really don’t think this is a WP problem. You might try ServerFault.com and/or your host provider for this one. You also might want to think about how subdomain are mapped to your site. Chances are, if I … Read more
Was simpler than I thought, but surprisingly little information about this. A client can request a protected page by specifying the cookie with a cookie query parameter: http://{wordpress-installation}/user?cookie={cookie}
As ialocin mentioned some requirements will require extra customizations. I can create a number of passwords to access the page You would create user accounts. Passwords don’t exist without users. An expiration date can be set for each password This isn’t implemented in wordpress and requires the most work. You could probably store a date … Read more
I have similar functionality on one of my app. I used wp_set_auth_cookie(). Remove the custom_login() function and use wp_set_auth_cookie($user_id) in its place.
You can use wp-api. Its really easy and best. The documentation is also very clear and vast. Its provide a small plugin which can do everything you want. http://wp-api.org/