Are you looking for a way to make the protected post or page cookie expire with the session? This snippet forces the protected post/page cookie to expire with the session by setting the cookie’s expiration time to 0.
Instructions:
All you have to do is add this code to your theme’s functions.php file or in a site-specific plugin:
add_action( 'wp', 'post_pw_sess_expire' );
function post_pw_sess_expire() {
if ( isset( $_COOKIE['wp-postpass_' . COOKIEHASH] ) )
// Setting a time of 0 in setcookie() forces the cookie to expire with the session
setcookie('wp-postpass_' . COOKIEHASH, '', 0, COOKIEPATH);
}
This snippet was created by Drew Jaynes.
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This code fucked up the rest of my site!! I removed it and now the passwords are not accepted!!
when you enter a password what happens ?
Nothing, keeps asking again the password. Does this script also modify some other pages.php or files.php automatically ?
this is the correct one
setcookie(‘wp-postpass_’ . COOKIEHASH, $_COOKIE[‘wp-postpass_’ . COOKIEHASH], 0, COOKIEPATH);