How can the time limit on password protect cookies be decreased?

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    webstitcher · Member ·

    Hosted here at WordPress.com.

    I want to decrease the time that the password is held on my only protected page. From what I’ve learned, the default is 10 days, and I would like it to be 15 minutes. I have read about code that can be put into the function.php file, but I haven’t a clue where I would find this and am even thinking that it isn’t available to me as WordPress.com is my host.

    I know some HTML and I can learn more, but I don’t have any background in the technical code required to tell browsers how to render pages.

    Thanks for any help you can offer.
    Sue

    My site: spsasg.org
    Password Protected Page: /members

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    rachelmcr · Member ·

    Hi Sue,

    Theme files for sites hosted here at WordPress.com cannot be modified, so the change you mentioned for password-protected pages is not possible here. You can use custom design tools to change a theme’s appearance, but you cannot make changes to the theme’s HTML markup, PHP code, or content.

    If you require this functionality, you may want to move your blog to a web host that supports theme code modifications using WordPress.org. You can learn more about the differences between sites hosted here at WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress.org sites here: WordPress.com and WordPress.org

    Please let me know if you have any other questions!

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    webstitcher · Member ·

    Thanks so much for the quick response. At least I can stop trying to do the impossible.
    Now the big decision – to move or not.
    S

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