WordPress Quirk
We’ve discovered a little WordPress quirk that’s a little bit annoying. Donna and I were both logged into the admin panel, from different machines. I had logged in first. Even though Donna was logged in, and WordPress appeared to recognize Donna on her computer, the system still assigned her first post to me. So, it appears that WordPress doesn’t like having two users from the same IP address (all of the machines here look the same as far as IP address goes because we’re sitting behind a router) logged in at the same time.
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May 23rd, 2005 in
Geek Log
Hmmm - I thought it controlled access via session-ID cookies. It looks like there’s a cookie with a hashed user-id and a second with the hashed ID and the encrypted password. I’ll take a look at the database and the code to see if logins are tracked via any other method. If not, it’s very odd that two computers are getting corn-fused as to who’s logged in.
Hmm - just tested it here. No conflict. The session cookies are set with an expiration time of a year, and are persistent across browser sessions. Perhaps you didn’t actually log out originally and Donna was unknowingly logged in as you?
Just a theory - I can’t seem to force it to think one user is another any other way.
She definitely logged in with her username and password. I had not logged in on her machine, but was concurrently logged in on mine.
I will say that this is still a version 1.5 installation — I haven’t had the 10 minutes available to upgrade to 1.5.1.1.whatever yet.
It is possible for her to check to make sure that the post “belongs” to her using the advanced writing options further down the screen. I have her access set high enough that she can change the post author if required.