Title: Safer Cookies
Author: Janis Elsts
Published: <strong>July 27, 2008</strong>
Last modified: December 7, 2009

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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.

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# Safer Cookies

 By [Janis Elsts](https://profiles.wordpress.org/whiteshadow/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/safer-cookies.1.2.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/safer-cookies/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/safer-cookies/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/safer-cookies/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/safer-cookies/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/safer-cookies/)

## Description

Normally when you login to your blog WordPress will create a session cookie that
is used to authenticate you. If someone was to steal the cookie they would be able
to use it to get full access to your blog without having to know your password. 
This plugin prevents that from happening – it makes the cookie specific to your 
IP address, so it won’t be usable from a different computer.

Use this plugin if you have a static IP. If you have a dynamic IP address and it
changes often you will get logged out frequently.

A bit more info can be obtained from the [Safer Cookies homepage](http://w-shadow.com/blog/2008/07/12/safer-cookies-plugin-for-wordpress/)

## Installation

To install the plugin follow these steps :

 1. Download the safer-cookies.zip file to your local machine.
 2. Unzip the file
 3. Upload “safer-cookies” folder to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory
 4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 5. You will be prompted to log in again. Do so. This is necessary to set the new cookie.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Safer Cookies” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Janis Elsts ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/whiteshadow/)

[Translate “Safer Cookies” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/safer-cookies)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/safer-cookies/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/safer-cookies/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/safer-cookies/) 
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/safer-cookies/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2**
 *  Last updated **17 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.9.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/safer-cookies/)
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[cookie](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/cookie/)
   [login](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/login/)[security](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/security/)
   [session](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/session/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/safer-cookies/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Janis Elsts ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/whiteshadow/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/safer-cookies/)