ANSWER TO MY OWN QUESTION This was something I had been trying to debug for the last couple of days. And the answer was found by mistake. What caused the error was caching. I had to exempt the cookie from cache in order for it to work as it should. So, if you are experiencing … Read more
Hash is used to encrypt the data saved in cookies, So, you don’t have to worry about someone getting your username and password by reading the cookie data.
You need to use the ‘init’ hook similar to the following: add_action( ‘init’, ‘your_function’); function your_function() { setcookie(‘my_cookie’,’tmp_val’); wp_redirect( get_permalink() ); exit; } } You should add a conditional ‘if’ statement in there to prevent it redirecting on every page though! eg. add_action( ‘init’, ‘your_function’); function your_function() { setcookie(‘my_cookie’,’tmp_val’); if ($my_cookie == “???”) { wp_redirect( … Read more
I ran this code to try setting a cookie on the gform_after_submission hook and it worked as expected. add_action( ‘gform_after_submission’, function() { setcookie( ‘boom’, ‘boom’, time() + 3600, “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/” ); } ); The headers should not already be sent when the gform_after_submission action is triggered. If you’re getting a warning about this, there might be … Read more
if you are not looking at coding it yourself then WP Greet Box(http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-greet-box/) could be used to achieve this. This plugin automatically loads a greeting message based on the referrer and it even allows you to customize the greetings, set time out to auto close the greeting etc. The only problem I see(from your question) … Read more
You can log out the current user with wp_logout() function: I think it is much better approach. wp_logout() destroys current session, clears authorization cookie and call wp_logout action. Also, it is a pluggable function, which means can be redefined by plugins. You can miss important stuff, specially when working in combination with other plugins. If … Read more
The advantage of a filter is that you can change a value without modifying core WP files. The filter you list: $secure_logged_in_cookie = apply_filters(‘secure_logged_in_cookie’, false, $user_id, $secure); Passes in three values. You just need to build a function that accepts those three values and returns true (or just returns true by default. This function, for … Read more
How to fix samesite attribute in wordpress for chrome errors?
Looks like I mis-interpreted what’s said in the codex. So, here’s the thing… This is what WordPress does by default: define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘.example.com’); — which means, cookies are sent with all the sub-domains, including example.com itself, even if your WordPress website itself is hosted on www.example.com. Basically the point is, when your WordPress site is served … Read more
It’s from LinkedIn. It’s listed here: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/cookie-table