I have a tricky situation…. I’d like to check for a cookie. If it doesn’t exist then then redirect to an internal wordpress page, and set a cookie. And then carry on browsing the site. But i get stuck in a loop if the url doesn’t exist. This is what i have so far…any help … Read more
The WordPress Codex clearly states that if your website is served from example.com, for the sake of performance, you can have the cookies served from www.example.com by adding this to your wp-config.php: define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘www.example.com’); Problem: The cookies are still being served from example.com and not www.example.com. What’s wrong? or does this no longer work? PS: … Read more
Does every web request send the browser’s cookies? I’m not talking page views, but a request for an image, .js file, etc. Update If a web page has 50 elements, that is 50 requests. Why would it send the SAME cookie(s) for each request, doesn’t it cache or know it already has it? 8 Answers … Read more
What is the shortest, accurate, and cross-browser compatible method for reading a cookie in JavaScript? Very often, while building stand-alone scripts (where I can’t have any outside dependencies), I find myself adding a function for reading cookies, and usually fall-back on the QuirksMode.org readCookie() method (280 bytes, 216 minified.) function readCookie(name) { var nameEQ = … Read more
Once logged into the WP admin, I can refresh the front-end and see my cookie’s value outputted as “hello world”. If I log out of the admin, then refresh my front-end, the cookie’s value is now “nothing”, as seen in my example function. This only happens when I’m viewing the website online. When testing locally, … Read more
I guess WP uses a PHP session (or a cookie) to save login data, right? I have a website, which uses WP as a CMS, but display (and create) content from outside. I allow anonymous posts, by simply not passing $post[‘post_author’] to wp_insert_post() However, I also want to make users (that are registered in WP) … Read more
I have written a plugin that sets cookies, and need to avoid the “Headers already sent” PHP error by placing the code at the very top before the head section. Themes usually place wp_head just before the close of the head section, so is there any efficient way to get a plugin to send this … Read more
Since the last update, I’m having an error with cookies, related with SameSite attribute. The cookies are from third party developers (Fontawesome, jQuery, Google Analytics, Google reCaptcha, Google Fonts, etc.) The errors in the Chrome console are like this. A cookie associated with a cross-site resource at <URL> was set without the `SameSite` attribute. A … Read more
(I’ve resolved this – sequencing error in wp-config.php – thanks to this answer elsewhere). I’ve moved a site dev to production and everything is working correctly except the login form, which is stuck a loop with this URL: /wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1 It’s an https:// site (though the dev site was as well) and uses a www. prefix … Read more
I’m looking for how to view the cookies set using developer tools in IE11. I see an option in network profiling to view cookies being sent back and forth, but this is not really the same thing. It is cumbersome to use since it’s per request. Surely there must be a way to view all … Read more
