I can be wrong, but I almost sure is not an issue: the cookie is based on user login, changing it the cookie is not valid anymore. If I’m right, is not possible kick out this behaviour, but if you want you can auto re-login the user after the update using wp_signon function.
I’m gonna attempt an answer here: In your GF code, you’re going to need to have a snippet that checks the hidden field in the db first. IF value is blank.. THEN they are not a winner = Proceed. If value is ‘winner’.. then update value to blank… Proceed with ‘winner’ functionality. In your cron, … Read more
A similar question popped at [wp-hackers] and apparently Eric Mann‘s plugin, WP Session Manager, is the way to go. I haven’t analyzed the plugin’s code, so cannot tell about its inner workings. Pippin Williamson embeds WPSM in his Easy Digital Downloads plugin. Given Pippin’s review and Eric being such a pro-old-timer-wp-ninja, I wouldn’t look no … Read more
SHORTINIT and sessions
Do you have exit(); after the header(… ? Do you issue the header() before any headers are sent already? If that’s a WooCommerce then I believe you are doing it wrong. Instead, you should enable AJAX adding to cart (that’s not straightforward on the individual product listings, and you may need to modify the default … Read more
White screen after login attempt
How to ‘remember’ a site member’s last visited page?
Sessions in plugin development?
I used this code in wordpress functions.php, to auto logout customer/user after payment in woocommerce or close the browser function logged_in( $expirein ) { return 6; // 6 in seconds } add_filter( ‘auth_cookie_expiration’, ‘logged_in’ ); function wp_logout2() { wp_destroy_current_session(); wp_clear_auth_cookie(); /** * Fires after a user is logged-out. * * @since 1.5.0 */ do_action( ‘wp_logout2’ … Read more
Use javascript, loading from your app – example.com and save the relevant info in cookie. Then on the WordPress, again using javascript, loading from your app (this is important to be able to read cookie) to read value of that cookie and update the page accordingly.