Comments on: Using Sessions in WordPress

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:41:48 +0000

I can set my sessions fine and they work on that page but if I go to another page I loose them. I tried removing the reference to sessions in the load.php but that didn’t help. Is there something I am missing? Do I need to make Sessions global somewhere?

By: Danny

Danny — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:44:28 +0000

Thanks man.You are a star!Had spent hours trying to figure this out.Your solution works well.

By: Karen Sullivan

Karen Sullivan — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:12:47 +0000

In wp-includes/load.php, removed references to $_SESSION where $_GLOBALS[$k] is nulled and unset.

Thank you

By: Karen Sullivan

Karen Sullivan — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:39:18 +0000

I seem to be the only person where your solution does not work. Newbie here so it might well be operator error.

I was using ob_start / if (session_id == ”) start_session in an include file used by all the pages – that didn’t work
Changed the wp-config.php file per your suggestion. that didn’t work — removed by code from the include file and that didn’t work

Running 3.2.1 with the wptdacaiberry theme

Here’s the .htaccess file:

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
# Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

I apologize for pestering you with this. Please let me know where I might ask this question.

Thank you

By: Jake Broughton

Jake Broughton — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:07:57 +0000

@Mike Thanks, good solution

Does the session not need to be closed afterwards?
If so, how do I do that?

By: Mvied

Mvied — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:35:58 +0000

You can place the code snippet in the functions.php of your theme, or create a plugin in wp-content/plugins and your change won’t be lost when upgrading.

By: Erick

Erick — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:05:50 +0000

Oh man thxxxx…. I am brazilian and i was looking for the solution to the day. Sorry for google translate.

By: Bala

Bala — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:23:32 +0000

It’s working in local server.. but session has not set in remote server…. how to solve it.

Thanks
Bala

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:43:08 +0000

Or use functions.php:

if ( !session_id() )
add_action( ‘init’, ‘session_start’ );

By: Oliver

Oliver — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:17:36 +0000

Thanks a lot. It can be so simple.