Title: PMC Post Savior
Author: Gabriel Koen
Published: <strong>August 30, 2012</strong>
Last modified: October 3, 2012

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# PMC Post Savior

 By [Gabriel Koen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mintindeed/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/pmc-post-savior.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pmc-post-savior/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pmc-post-savior/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pmc-post-savior/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pmc-post-savior/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pmc-post-savior/)

## Description

PMC Post Savior checks every 15 seconds to see if you’re still logged in. If you
are not, it presents a pop-up window so that you can log back in without losing 
your work.

Github: https://github.com/Penske-Media-Corp/pmc-post-savior

WordPress.org: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pmc-post-savior/

Image by [The Library of Congress](http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2890279022/).
See link for details.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * PMC Post Savior notices that your login has expired.
 * [[
 * PMC Post Savior presents a pop-up that lets you login again.

## Installation

 1. Upload the `pmc-post-savior` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## FAQ

#### Why don’t you just read the cookies via javascript?

Since the auth cookies are not visible to javascript, this uses AJAX to communicate
with WordPress to check the login cookies.

#### Why 15 seconds?

Because 1 minute is too long.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“PMC Post Savior” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Gabriel Koen ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mintindeed/)

[Translate “PMC Post Savior” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/pmc-post-savior)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pmc-post-savior/), 
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/pmc-post-savior/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/pmc-post-savior/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/pmc-post-savior/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * Fix issue where login prompt didn’t show in full-screen edit mode.
 * No longer instantiate into a global. Unnecessary since the class is already a
   singleton. Props JJJ.

#### 0.9

 * Initial beta release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **14 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.4 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.5.2**
 * Tag
 * [login](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/login/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pmc-post-savior/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ Gabriel Koen ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mintindeed/)

## Support

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