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The WordPress “Meta” widget uses a lot of screen space and presents more information than some site designers would like. The Login/Logout plugin provides web designers with a compact alternative.
Available translations: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Dutch, Polish, Norwegian and Persian.
The plugin can be used as a widget in themes that include sidebars. Alternatively, it can be added to your site’s footer or any other part of the site by inserting “rh_hype_lilo(); into your site’s PHP.
When the user is not logged in, the plugin presents a link so the user can Login, and an option allows another link to Register. Once logged in, users are redirected back to the page they came from. The plugin also displays the username and has an option to also display their email address.
There is also a link to Logout and, depending on the user’s role, a link to their profile or to the main site administration pages. Users are redirected back to the page they came from after they logout.
When used as a widget, a hyperlink option enables the widget to display an arbitrary number of hyperlinks to other sites/pages. These links are displayed only to logged in users. Other options enable the appearance of the widget to be customized to suit the theme design.
You must logout and in again to see changes such as new links etc. in the widget.
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Login-Logout

Adds simple, clean links so users can login/logout & register easily. Highly customisable, & can be used as a widget or inserted into your sit …

Scott Kingsley Clark

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If you want to integrate the wordpress authentication magic into another script within your website you may come across authentication issues because your code cannot read the wordpress cookie.
By default the wordpress cookie exactly matches the URL of your installation, this plugin removes any subfolders from the cookie so that your whole domain has access to it.
For Example if you have wordpress installed in http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress/ any php stored in http://www.mydomain.com/mymagiccode/ cannot see the cookie due to browser security. This plugin changes the path to http://www.mydomain.com/ so that any php code on your site can access the cookie, so in our above example http://www.mydomain.com/mymagiccode/checkauthentication.php can now check the cookie to see if you have logged into wordpress.
NEW: Now you can allow cookies to be used across subdomains! Here are some examples that you can now access cookies from:
<ul>
<li>http://www.mydomain.com/</li>
<li>http://test.mydomain.com/</li>
<li>http://www.mydomain.com/blog/</li>
<li>http://test.mydomain.com/new/</li>
<li>http://forum.mydomain.com/getwordpresslogin.php</li>
</ul>
<h3>Multi-blog Installs</h3>
It is possible to use this plugin such that if you are logged into one WordPress site, then you are auto-magically logged into the second, but there are some caveats!
<ol>
<li>The Username & Password MUST be the same on Both!</li>
<li>The Security Keys https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Security_Keys Need to be the same on Both!</li>
</ol>
<h3>Support</h3>
Comments on my website are welcome, but please post <a href="https://wordpress.org/tags/root-cookie?forum_id=10#postform" rel="ugc">in this WordPress Forum</a>

root Cookie

Even after so much time since the last update, your plugin worked perfectly and helped me fix my website. Thank you so much!!

THANK YOU!!

Changes the cookie default path to / (i.e. the whole domain.com not just domain.com/blog) with an option to go across subdomains

Login-Logout vs root Cookie