Title: session_token_manager
Published: September 4, 2014
Last modified: April 28, 2025

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# apply_filters( ‘session_token_manager’, string $session )

## In this article

 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/session_token_manager/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/session_token_manager/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/session_token_manager/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/session_token_manager/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Filters the class name for the session token manager.

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/session_token_manager/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$session`string

Name of class to use as the manager.
 Default ‘[WP_User_Meta_Session_Tokens](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_user_meta_session_tokens/)‘.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/session_token_manager/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    $manager = apply_filters( 'session_token_manager', 'WP_User_Meta_Session_Tokens' );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/class-wp-session-tokens.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/class-wp-session-tokens.php#L58)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/class-wp-session-tokens.php#L58-L58)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/session_token_manager/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Used by | Description | 
| [WP_Session_Tokens::destroy_all_for_all_users()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_session_tokens/destroy_all_for_all_users/)`wp-includes/class-wp-session-tokens.php` |

Destroys all sessions for all users.

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| [WP_Session_Tokens::get_instance()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_session_tokens/get_instance/)`wp-includes/class-wp-session-tokens.php` |

Retrieves a session manager instance for a user.

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/session_token_manager/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [4.0.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/4.0.0/) | Introduced. |

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