Title: What cookies does WordPress use?
Last modified: September 8, 2016

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# What cookies does WordPress use?

 *  [Buddypressnewb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nunivo/)
 * (@nunivo)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-cookies-does-wordpress-use/)
 * Greetings,
 * I am busy with a cookie policy for my website, but I have no idea what kind of
   cookies WordPress uses?
 * Thank you for your time and answer.

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-cookies-does-wordpress-use/#post-8158114)
 * Do you mean WordPress.org? [https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/](https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/)
 *  Thread Starter [Buddypressnewb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nunivo/)
 * (@nunivo)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-cookies-does-wordpress-use/#post-8158140)
 * Does WordPress CMS use cookies for it performance, my website.
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-cookies-does-wordpress-use/#post-8158241)
 * Yes: [https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Cookies](https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Cookies)
 *  Thread Starter [Buddypressnewb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nunivo/)
 * (@nunivo)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-cookies-does-wordpress-use/#post-8158448)
 * Thanks Andrew for providing the link with info.

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 * [cookies](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cookies/)

 * In: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/)
 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Buddypressnewb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nunivo/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-cookies-does-wordpress-use/#post-8158448)
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