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apply_filters( 'post_password_expires', int $expires )

Filters the life span of the post password cookie.

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Description

By default, the cookie expires 10 days from creation. To turn this into a session cookie, return 0.


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Parameters

$expires int
The expiry time, as passed to setcookie().

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Source

File: wp-login.php. View all references

$expire  = apply_filters( 'post_password_expires', time() + 10 * DAY_IN_SECONDS );

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Changelog

Changelog
Version Description
3.7.0 Introduced.

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User Contributed Notes

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    Contributed by wplmillet — 3 years ago

    Allows you to limit the cookie validity time either to a value passed as a parameter or to the session itself.

    function Modif_expir_cookie( $time ) { 
      return time() + 600 ;  // 10 mn
      // for 5 minutes :  
      // return time() + 300;  in this case 60 * 5 
      // return 0; set cookie to expire at the end of the session
    }
    add_filter('post_password_expires', 'Modif_expir_cookie' );
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