Inconsitent Login/Logout status ?

[Musikus]

Hi,
as other users already have reported, an important “idle user logout” is missing for the simple membership plugin. User log in at the front-end and later leave their PC without logout to the site. When they come back later, they are still logged in (even if they have stopped and re-started their browser).
However, there seems to be an interference with another plugin “Download Monitor” (https://www.download-monitor.com/). This plugin is used to prevent users who are not logged in to download documents. And funny: when users stop and restart their browser, Download Monitor doesn’t detect the status “logged in” for the user, while Simple Membership Plugin does :-((
This is very confusing for the user.

I suppose there must be a possibility to detect that the browser has been stopped and restarted and I’d rather propose that Simple Membership Plugin should use this for an automatic logout of the user. This would be one step in the right direction :-))

[mbrsolution]

Thank you for your suggestion and report. The plugin developers will investigate further your request.

Regards

[admin]

It is out intention to keep the login active for longer period. Majority of the users hate having to log in again and again.

So if you are doing a project where you want to force logout users automatically and stuff, you will need to look for an alternative plugin as we can’t go down that route.

[mbrsolution]

@Musikus, you might also consider the following.

Add a message for your members to read when they log in.

The message could say something like.

“Remember to log out after you have completed a session. If not the plugin will keep you logged in even if you have closed the browser. This might lead to other issues with other plugins. In that case the best solution is to clear the browser cache and then log back in.”

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