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ISSUE 21.12.1 • 2024-03-22 By Susan Bradley I’ve been monitoring the fixes we made to ensure that customer orders are properly handled. I’m confident
[See the full post at: Issues with processing renewals resolved]
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
@WCHS –
Your answer lies in Susan’s post directly below here in the first sentence of her post. That’s why I thanked her.
Because of that concept, I’m afraid you’ll have to keep doing what you’ve been doing all along…re-logging in every so often. I don’t stay logged in, I log out when I leave here and log back in whenever I return, so I haven’t experienced the cookie issue.
<Thread hijack> BUT, I do remember when one could go into the cookie collection stored by Firefox and see the details/contents of each cookie and when its’ expiration date was. If that were still possible, you could then see when the cookies that were set would expire and you’d then know that you’d have to log back in after that date and time.</Thread hijack>
Websites based on wordpress notoriously don’t hold cookies well. I recommend using a password manager program and not using the browser to store passwords either.
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
When you have financial sites that mandate changing passwords every 90 days, you have to use a password manager process of some sort. There’s no way to keep up and it slows me down to write them down in a book.
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
Do you have any suggestions on what can be done about the life-span of the cookie(s) that log me out.
Regardless of any WordPress-related issues, I’d vote to shorten the cookie expiration. I’m looking at it from the perspective of AskWoody’s security – open cookies are potentially a threat vector.
My personal usage, which is moderately inconvenient because I’m on this site every day, is never to set “keep me logged in.” There are a few exceptions, but AskWoody is not one of them.
I’m not having a cookie issue – but since I renewed on March 18, I am having a renewal issue. My Plus status has been removed and I can’t access any Plus newsletters or the Patch List. On any page, it still says Plus member in my profile box, but also a note saying:
Our records show that you’re not receiving the AskWoody Plus Newsletter or Alerts at . You may be receiving Newsletters at a different email address, in which case no action is needed on your part. If you aren’t receiving any Newsletters, I can run down the cause if you send your username to CustomerSupport@AskWoody.com.
I have only ever had one email address, and have always gotten newsletter, but since this issue, I didn’t get a Plus newsletter today.
When I just posted in another discussion, I was only listed as a Lounger – not a Plus member – but I should be based on the fact that I renewed my Plus subscription which is in effect till March 25, 2025.
Hope this can be corrected soon.
Hold on.
That’s a different problem and normally occurs when the subscription settings have been cancelled so there’s a disconnect between the email engine and the subscription. Let me get you back in sync.
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
Got you sync’d up and fixed.
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
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