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Is there an easy way to see if a user - someone how has logged in in the past but is not currently logged in - is visiting my site?

I was thinking that checking if $COOKIE[TEST_COOKIE] is set, but I am uncertain.

  1. Is this a good method?
  2. Is there a better cookie to check for?
  3. What would you do?
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Hmmm ... TEST_COOKIE seems to disappear when session is over. Probably not a good idea. What do you think about checking to see if $COOKIE is not empty might be a better method as the wp-settings-time-* cookie seems to stick around for a year. – mfields Jul 5 '11 at 13:11
Are you using $COOKIE or $_COOKIE? – EAMann♦ Jul 5 '11 at 15:30
Was doing it right in the code ... not sure where the underscore went? I've abandoned this though. – mfields Jul 5 '11 at 16:41

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You could check for this cookie wp-settings-1 it lasts for 1 day and then also check if wordpress_test_cookie is available. Or you could just write a simple plugin that checks if the user is logged in and adds a longer term cookie to check against.

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