Ruurd de Wind

<p>What you can expect from this plugin:</p>
<ul>
<li>When this plugin is active, your website can not be crawled or visited without loggin in first.</li>
<li>When you are running an environment that needs to be shielded from the outside, this could be the solution.</li>
<li>When this plugin is deactivated it does not leave any file or data behind.</li>
<li>Clean, fast and safe solution for redirecting your visitors to the standard WordPress login screen.</li>
</ul>


Login First

This plugin makes users login first before they can see your website. Real handy when you are developing a site or just want to to shield it from sear …

Scott Kingsley Clark

linickx

<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>NEW: Now you can allow cookies to be used across subdomains! Here are some examples that you can now access cookies from:</p>
<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>
<p>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!</p>
<ol>
<li>The Username & Password <em>MUST</em> 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>
<p>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></p>


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 First vs root Cookie