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This plugin hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.

PMC Post Savior

By Gabriel Koen
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Description

PMC Post Savior checks every 15 seconds to see if you’re still logged in. If you are not, it presents a pop-up window so that you can log back in without losing your work.

Github: https://github.com/Penske-Media-Corp/pmc-post-savior

WordPress.org: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pmc-post-savior/

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  • PMC Post Savior notices that your login has expired.
  • PMC Post Savior presents a pop-up that lets you login again.

Installation

  1. Upload the pmc-post-savior folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

FAQ

Why don’t you just read the cookies via javascript?

Since the auth cookies are not visible to javascript, this uses AJAX to communicate with WordPress to check the login cookies.

Why 15 seconds?

Because 1 minute is too long.

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Contributors & Developers

“PMC Post Savior” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors
  • Gabriel Koen

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Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

1.0

  • Fix issue where login prompt didn’t show in full-screen edit mode.
  • No longer instantiate into a global. Unnecessary since the class is already a singleton. Props JJJ.

0.9

  • Initial beta release.

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  • Version 1.0
  • Last updated 13 years ago
  • Active installations Fewer than 10
  • WordPress version 3.4 or higher
  • Tested up to 3.5.2
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