How reduce wordpress login session timeout time?

Question

I want to logout user autometically when user is idle for more than 10 minutes.That mean suppose user is logged in to a site and user didn't browse any pages for more than 10 mins.when he browse any page after 10mins, it will logout user and redirect to login page.Any Solution? Advance Thanks.

Answer 1

You just need to add your filter hook like this:

function myplugin_cookie_expiration( $expiration, $user_id, $remember ) {
    return $remember ? $expiration : 600;
}
add_filter( 'auth_cookie_expiration', 'myplugin_cookie_expiration', 99, 3 );

You can add it to your theme’s functions.php file.