Title: Using wordpress cookies/sessions/authentication
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Using wordpress cookies/sessions/authentication

 *  [marktastic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marktastic/)
 * (@marktastic)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wordpress-cookiessessionsauthentication/)
 * I would like to use wordpress’ user authentication on external non-wordpress 
   pages.
 * More specifically:
    I have a non-wordpress page that shows everyone a standard
   page. If a user has logged into wordpress and then visits the same page, special
   information is displayed.
 * How would I go about doing the authentication checking? Which cookies do I need
   to check against which databases with which encryption?
 * Any help is greatly appreciated!

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 *  [Christopher J. Hradil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chradil/)
 * (@chradil)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wordpress-cookiessessionsauthentication/#post-559377)
 * there’s some good documentation on this at:
    [the bbpress site](http://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/)
   as well as at: [the wp codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Cookies)

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## Tags

 * [authentication](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/authentication/)
 * [cookie](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cookie/)
 * [cookies](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cookies/)
 * [encryption](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/encryption/)
 * [login](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/login/)
 * [session](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/session/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Christopher J. Hradil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chradil/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wordpress-cookiessessionsauthentication/#post-559377)
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