Scott Reilly

Take control of the “Remember Me” login feature for WordPress by having it enabled by default, customize how long users are remembered, or disable this built-in feature by default.
For those unfamiliar, “Remember Me” is a checkbox present when logging into WordPress. If checked, WordPress will remember the login session for 14 days. If unchecked, the login session will be remembered for only 2 days. Once a login session expires, WordPress will require you to log in again if you wish to continue using the admin section of the site.
This plugin provides three primary controls over the behavior of the “Remember Me” feature:
<ul>
<li>Automatically check “Remember Me” : The ability to have the “Remember Me” checkbox automatically checked when the login form is loaded (it isn’t checked by default).</li>
<li>Customize the duration of the “Remember Me” : The ability to customize how long WordPress will remember a login session when “Remember Me” is checked, either forever or a customizable number of hours.</li>
<li>Disable “Remember Me” : The ability to completely disable the feature, preventing the checkbox from appearing and restricting all login sessions to 2 days.</li>
</ul>
NOTE: WordPress remembers who you are based on cookies stored in your web browser. If you use a different web browser, clear your cookies, use a browser on a different machine, or uninstall/reinstall (and possibly even just restarting) your browser then you will have to log in again since WordPress will not be able to locate the cookies needed to identify you.
<h4>Compatibility</h4>
Other than the plugins listed below, compatibility has not been tested or attempted for any other third-party plugins that provide their own login widgets or login handling.
Special handling has been added to provide compatibility with the following plugins:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/" rel="ugc">BuddyPress</a> (in particular, its “Log in” widget)</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/sidebar-login/" rel="ugc">Sidebar Login</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/login-sidebar-widget/" rel="ugc">Login Widget With Shortcode</a></li>
</ul>
Links: <a href="https://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/remember-me-controls/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Homepage</a> | <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/remember-me-controls/" rel="ugc">Plugin Directory Page</a> | <a href="https://github.com/coffee2code/remember-me-controls/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a> | <a href="https://coffee2code.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Author Homepage</a>

Remember Me Controls

Have "Remember Me" checked by default on the login page and configure how long a login is remembered. Or disable the feature altogether.

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>

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

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