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  disel75 · Member · Oct 5, 2011 at 1:31 pm

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  Hi,

  We use wordpress inside another website. It is purely for a blog and there is no user interaction (i.e comments/ratings etc). When the page is opened a wordpress.com cookie is created for the user, how can I stop this happening from the wordpress side?

  Thanks

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

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  timethief · Member · Oct 5, 2011 at 3:14 pm

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  Please post an active link starting with http:// to the blog in question.

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  disel75 · Member · Oct 6, 2011 at 7:01 am

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  I am not the owner of the blog in question, but one I have just set up does exactly the same thing: http://advancedgolfsoftware.wordpress.com/

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 6, 2011 at 7:48 am

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  At wordpress.COM, you cannot stop that from happening.

  On a self-hosted wordpress installation it is probably possible, but would likely require hacking the core wordpress files, which means the first time you do an update, you would overwrite your hack and have to redo it. And redo it each time after that. It might be something that could be accomplished with a custom built plugin, but that is pure speculation on my part.

  For self-hosted inquiries, you would need to ask over at http://wordpress.ORG/support/ .

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 6, 2011 at 7:59 am

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  I should mention that you have not given us enough to know if the wordpress site you are talking about is hosted here at wordpress.COM, or if it is a wordpress.ORG installation on the other website, so all we can do is reply in a general way.

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  disel75 · Member · Oct 6, 2011 at 9:06 am

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  thanks for your response, it is hosted at wordpress.com.

  Looks like we will have to move off WordPress if that is the case.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 6, 2011 at 9:12 am

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  I’m familiar with several of the blog hosting services, and none of them I know of have anyway to turn off cookies.

  Your best bet would be to ask over at the wordpress.ORG forums and I’m sure someone over there could advise you on what it would take to turn them off on a self-hosted wordpress installation.

  You are going to have to have a system where you have control of everything to be able to do this which is going to mean independently hosting your own on a web host.