Changes the cookie default path to / (i.e. the whole domain.com not just domain.com/blog) with an option to go across subdomains
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:
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!
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This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.
e.g.
root-cookie.php
to the /wp-content/plugins/
directoryThis is the basic functionality of the plugin, it removes the path from the cookie.
e.g
cookie set as www.domain.com/wordpress becomes www.doamin.com
You don’t need to, by default the path is removed from the cookie just by enabling it
This is new as of version 1.5, root cookie can now change the wordpress cookie to be accesiable across subdomains.
e.g.
cookie set as www.domain.com becomains domain.com
In the wordpress administrator dashboard, select root cookie and tick the box!
In the wordpress administrator dashboard, select root cookie and unselect “Allow Cookies to go across All Subdomains” and in the “Domain Name” box type in you domain such as domain.com or domain.co.uk
Try maunally setting the cookie, see above.