How can i increase the login expiration length?

Question

As the title says, how can i increase the login expiration period?

Running a local install it's a little annoying to have to keep logging in, despite the fact i have the browser remember login credentials it's an extra step i have to perform everytime i fire up the local server.

I assume if i increase the cookie expiration period i'll avoid the need to keep logging in(as often).

Have googled and searched the forums, but all i found were unresponded to threads and i'm not in the mood for digging through code to work it out.

I don't need an in-depth answer, just some pointers on suitable hooks(if any exist for this purpose), i can work out the rest from there.

Off to find somewhere cool to sit now, upstairs is roasting hot right now(hot weather here) i think the laptop might just die if i keep it on any longer, i'll be keeping tabs on the question from another system in a cooler area of the house though and looking forward to any pointers you guys have for me.

Answer 1

Don't know if this is the best way, but I've been using this in functions.php in my themes:

function keep_me_logged_in_for_1_year( $expirein ) {
   return 31556926; // 1 year in seconds
}
add_filter( 'auth_cookie_expiration', 'keep_me_logged_in_for_1_year' );

Answer 2

this doesn't answer your question specifically, but you can pass your user id to wp_set_auth_cookie() and it will log you in.

edit - and it appears it's pluggable and has a remember parameter that expires the cookie in 14 rather than 2 days.