authentication

Users are required to login to my site. How define user.member boolean, its permissions, and conditionally display/handle behavior based on it

To store user–specific information WordPress has a user meta, pretty much identical to post meta (also known as custom fields). See get_user_meta() and related functions. Unfortunately WP doesn’t provide any interface or interface helpers for it. You would have to implement that yourself, probably hooking into user profile screen.

throttle/limit a logged in user’s http requests to specific page on a per day basis

First, check for get_current_user_id. Then create a log of visits by adding information to a user’s metadata with update_user_meta & get_user_meta. On every page hit that you care about you can run a function to determine rate/limit of usage per user. If they break the rules, you can redirect to a page that doesn’t contain … Read more

Cookie is not set

This is the correct format for a cookie to expire in one hour (3600 seconds): setcookie(‘rma_member’, true, time() + 3600, COOKIEPATH, COOKIE_DOMAIN); setcookie Expire: The time the cookie expires. This is a Unix timestamp so is in number of seconds since the epoch. In other words, you’ll most likely set this with the time() function … Read more

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