How Does Wordpress Use Cookies

Cookies let the website know who is trying to access it, ation or ask for credentials first.   The first contains your, the second double hashed copy of your password.   hash is scrambler code that requires key to decode, ation.   This enables you to navigate away from WordPress or even close the site and come back later without the need.   WordPress uses few settings cookies, ation about how you prefer to view and use the site.   WordPress will again prompt them to log in, and new set of cookies containing the user's name and password will be generated..   advertising companies and some nefarious websites make use of third-party cookies, which can be used to monitor user's surfing behavior or send sensitive or information off to website that the user is not currently interacting with.   In 2011 European Union created law demanding that all web businesses make users aware of explicitly agree to the use of cookies.   This generated lot of bad press over the use of cookies in general, as many people do not understand the differences between first and third-party cookies or how cookies are used in the basic functions of major website.   WordPress's user base also stepped up and produced convenient and efficient plugins to make compliance with the law as painless as possible...   Read more