David Gewirtz

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Allows the Administrator and/or the User to control the placement of a check mark in the Remember Me checkbox on the standard WordPress login form.
Without a check mark in the Remember Me checkbox, your users will have to login every time they close their browser. With Remember Me selected, they won’t have to login again for two weeks.
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Settings allow:
<ul>
<li>The Administrator to control whether Remember Me is the default for all logins, logins from Admin panels or logins from public web pages controlled by My Private Site or equivalent plugin</li>
<li>The Administrator to control if the User’s Remember Me choice is remembered and, if so, for how long</li>
<li>Disabling of the plugin’s control of the Remember Me checkbox</li>
</ul>
Defaults:
<ul>
<li>Remember Me is the default for all logins</li>
<li>The User’s Remember Me choice will be remembered for one year</li>
</ul>
There are other plugins that make Remember Me the default, but I wrote this plugin in October 2013 because I wanted a solution that did not require JavaScript, which was the solution used by every other plugin that I could find. This plugin uses a documented standard WordPress Action (“hook”) and a Post variable used by WordPress just for this purpose, i.e. – straight PHP with no JavaScript.
Deciding whether this plugin is for you:
<ul>
<li>WordPress always leaves the Remember Me checkbox empty, even if you selected it the last time you logged on;</li>
<li>Without Remember Me checked, logoff occurs automatically when the browser is closed or two days have passed;</li>
<li>Without Remember Me checked, some browsers will force a login when opening a new browser window;</li>
<li>With Remember Me checked, logoff occurs automatically in two weeks;</li>
<li>With Remember Me checked, the user remains logged in even if the browser is closed, the user’s computer is rebooted or the web site hosting server is rebooted;</li>
<li>Web sites that can only be viewed by registered users (e.g. – <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/jonradio-private-site/" title="My Private Site" rel="ugc">My Private Site plugin</a>) are more likely to want Remember Me pre-selected for each user at login, as web site viewing will be more frequently repeated than WordPress Administration;</li>
<li>For public or shared computers, the WordPress behaviour of leaving the Remember Me checkbox empty is a slight Security improvement, but is easily defeated by a user selecting Remember Me during login, which still leaves subsequent users logged on.</li>
</ul>

InstallActivateGo Remember Me

Control whether Remember Me is selected on the WordPress Login Form, without using any JavaScript.

John Morris

Do you use the “Remember Me” feature when logging in to your WordPress site? I know I do.
Do you find it annoying when WordPress stops remembering you after a few days? I know I do.
Longer Login is a simple WordPress plugin that remedies this. By default, WordPress automatically 
forgets users after 14 days. This plugin adds an option in your website’s General Settings that 
can change this expiration date. There are numerous options ranging from 1 day to 1 year.
Change the setting, and the next time you, or any user on your site logs in with “Remember Me” checked, 
WordPress will keep them logged in for that specified time.
<h4>How Does It Work?</h4>
To remember users, websites store a small piece of information in your web browser’s memory. 
This token of information is called an <a href="wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie" rel="nofollow ugc">HTTP cookie</a>. These 
cookies have an expiration date specified by the website.
By default, WordPress websites have their persistent login cookies expire after 14 days. This plugin 
changes the length of time the cookie will survive. Instead of 14 days after login, you can make the 
cookie live for as long as 1 year after login.

Longer Login ("Remember Me" Extension)

Longer Login allows customizing the length of WordPress' "Remember Me" length. No more automatic logouts every few days!

InstallActivateGo Remember Me vs Longer Login ("Remember Me" Extension)