If you are doing this for your own site then using .htaccess might be the easiest way although it could get tricky if you want to make it work for a plugin as there would be lots of different subtle configuration differences to support. Here are some articles that could help; not all are directly … Read more
Add below line to your wp-config.php before /* That’s all, stop editing!…*/ define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] ); /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */
wp_set_auth_cookie() will log a user in without having to know their password.
Where do you need to know the user? In views the user is provided in the request as request.user. For user-handling in templates see here If you want to save the creator or editor of a model’s instance you can do something like: model.py admin.py I found this on the Internet, but I don’t know where anymore