Description
Adds $_SESSION-like functionality to WordPress.
Every visitor, logged in or not, will be issued an instance of WP_Session. Their instance will be identified by an ID
stored in the _wp_session cookie. Typically, session data will be stored in a WordPress transient, but if your
installation has a caching system in-place (i.e. memcached), the session data might be stored in memory.
This provides plugin and theme authors the ability to use WordPress-managed session variables without having to use the
standard PHP $_SESSION superglobal.
Installation
Manual Installation
- Upload the entire
/wp-session-managerfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- Use
WP_Session::get_instance()in your code.
FAQ
- Installation Instructions
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Manual Installation
- Upload the entire
/wp-session-managerfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- Use
WP_Session::get_instance()in your code.
- Upload the entire
- How do I add session variables?
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First, make a reference to the WP_Session instance. Then, use it like an associative array, just like
$_SESSION:$wp_session = WP_Session::get_instance(); $wp_session['user_name'] = 'User Name'; // A string $wp_session['user_contact'] = array( 'email' => 'user@name.com' ); // An array $wp_session['user_obj'] = new WP_User( 1 ); // An object - How long do session variables live?
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By default, session variables will live for 24 minutes from the last time they were accessed – either read or write.
This value can be changed by using the
wp_session_expirationfilter:add_filter( 'wp_session_expiration', function() { return 60 * 60; } ); // Set expiration to 1 hour
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Contributors & Developers
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Changelog
1.2.2
- Update: Use regex pattern matching to ensure session IDs are identical going in/out of the DB to account for encoding differences
1.2.1
- Update: Additional filters for the
setcookieparameters - Update: Expose the Session ID publicly
- Fix: Better handling for malformed or broken session names
1.2.0
- Update: Enhanced plugin organization
- Update: Added WP_CLI support for session management
- Update: Add Composer definitions
- Fix: Break up the deletion of old sessions so queries don’t time out under load
1.1.2
- Fix a race condition where session expiration options could accidentally be set to autoload
- Make the garbage collection routine run hourly to alleviate long-running tasks on larger sites
1.1.1
- Fix a bug where session expiration was not properly set upon instantiation
1.1
- Implement Recursive_ArrayAccess to provide multidimensional array support
- Better expiration for session data
- Implement garbage collection to keep the database clean
1.0.2
- Switch to object persistence rather than transients
1.0.1
- Changes implementation to avoid the use of a global variable (still registered for convenience)
1.0
- First version
