Comments on: Using sessions in WordPress

By: Ecommerce Application

Ecommerce Application — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:09:07 +0000

Great share. Thanks a lot. Really saved my day!!

By: web development

web development — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:58:53 +0000

how they know if you are still logged in. using cookies?

By: shulato

shulato — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:57:22 +0000

why they don’t use session? what do they use, cookies?

By: David Cowgill

David Cowgill — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:35 +0000

Yes, I’m surprised that WP doesn’t use sessions either. I actually found that using a hook is much better for plugin and themes so you then don’t have to worry about having the user modify their wp-config.php file.

Here’s a simple function you can add in your functions.php file that will start a session automatically. Then you don’t need the wp-config.php session_start(); code.

function cp_admin_init() {
if (!session_id())
session_start();
}

add_action(‘init’, ‘cp_admin_init’);