Title: Session duration ?
Last modified: February 12, 2021

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# Session duration ?

 *  Resolved [kjc041056](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kjc041056/)
 * (@kjc041056)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/session-duration/)
 * I have installed your plugin which has proved very useful as I am trying to understand
   how Sessions in Worpdpress are managed.
 * I have researched and read in various places about the Cookies that WP uses to
   maintain session state. I also have seen in the Users “Sessions Settings” tab
   where “Standard cookie duration” can be set and that it defaults to 2 days.
 * I have been studying this for the past week and generally see that if I log in
   as an Admin user, I get a 2 day session duration.
 * However, I also see that my wife who is an Admin user has session duration of
   a year (356days). She has been working on the site for many years. However, when
   I look at her “Standard cookie duration” – it is 2 days.
 * Can you help with my understanding ?
 * Thanks,
    Keith.

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 *  Plugin Author [Pierre Lannoy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pierrelannoy/)
 * (@pierrelannoy)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/session-duration/#post-14045043)
 * Hello [@kjc041056](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kjc041056/) !
 * There’s mainly (and potentially) 3 reasons why you can see such thing:
    – Your
   wife use and old cookie which was present in her browser cache prior the plugin
   installation. You can verify this assumption by deleting all sessions belonging
   to her account, purging the browser cache and asking her to open a new session.–
   She have more than one role on the site (like admin + something else). If so,
   you have to verify plugin settings for all roles she may have – regarding the
   settings you’ve set (cumulative or least privileges). – There’s another plugin
   on your site that modifies cookie durations. If so, just tell me its name and
   I will see how to deal with it.
 * Pierre
 *  Thread Starter [kjc041056](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kjc041056/)
 * (@kjc041056)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/session-duration/#post-14047288)
 * Hello Pierre,
    Thanks for your reply. After I posted the support request, I cleared
   out all of the old sessions and as you suggest, logged out of the active sessions
   and back in. We now have a small set of sessions that are in use on our various
   devices. I also now see that not logging out of a session but just closing the
   browser window leads to dormant sessions being left without practical use.
 * I have also increased cookie duration to 28 days and that is working OK. Going
   forward and with your plugin, I intend to track sessions more closely. I like
   the fact that the active session for a login blinks.
 * The 365 day sessions have now all gone. There were two and I cannot see how they
   were set that way. As you say, it could be another Plugin but I have not found
   it yet. If I do, I will let you know.
 * Thanks,
    Keith.
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by [kjc041056](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kjc041056/).
 *  Thread Starter [kjc041056](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kjc041056/)
 * (@kjc041056)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/session-duration/#post-14050109)
 * Pierre – I remembered something that may be a factor. We use Jetpack and the 
   setting “Allow users to log into this site using WordPress.com accounts” was 
   in use. I am not sure if this was a factor but it had been set some years ago
   and it is not a feature we want to use going forward. Without really being clear
   on what it was doing, my wife had been using it when logging in. I did not however
   use it.
    So now that is disabled plus we have a new session duration set and 
   all seems to be working fine.
 * Thanks,
    Keith.
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by [kjc041056](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kjc041056/).
 *  Plugin Author [Pierre Lannoy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pierrelannoy/)
 * (@pierrelannoy)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/session-duration/#post-14051698)
 * Hello [@kjc041056](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kjc041056/) !
    And thank
   you for your kind words 😉
 * > I also now see that not logging out of a session but just closing the browser
   > window leads to dormant sessions being left without practical use.
 * You’re right, that’s the way many CMS (not really) handle sessions, hence the
   purpose of the session idle time in the plugin.
 * Regarding Jetpack, yes it have impacts on users’s sessions. Notably the cookies
   timeout. It always take the “remember me” value.
 * Nevermind… The good news is it’s now working 🙂

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