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Strictly necessary cookies

Find out more about strictly necessary cookies and how they apply to our privacy policy.

Strictly necessary cookies

Some cookies we place on your browser ensure that Blogs.ed delivers you information and services securely and optimally.

You must accept these essential cookies to be able to make use of our system.

List of strictly necessary cookies we use:

Name Data stored Purpose Expires
PHPSESSID A random unique number or string of letters and numbers.

A session cookie is required to follow your progress through the website. It is essential to ensure that any information you enter or routes you take are remembered by the website. Without this cookie, every page you visited would treat you as a completely new visitor. This cookie does not identify you personally and is not linked to any other information we store about you.

When you close your browser.
NSC_xxx.fe.bd.vl A random unique number or string of letters and numbers.

The blogging website uses more than one server to provide web pages. When you visit the website, you are assigned to one of several servers. This cookie is required to track which server you are communicating with in order to present a consistent user experience and remember information about the data you have entered. This cookie does not identify you personally and is not linked to any other information we store about you.

When you close your browser.
spo_<number>_fa

A random unique number or string of letters and numbers.

Set by WPMU DEV "Multisite Privacy" plugin. According to developer support, this is a left-over from an old system and is not used anywhere. Will be removed in the plugin’s next update. 30 minutes.
<random name>

A random unique number or string of letters and numbers.

The blogging website uses this cookie to reduce spam comments on posts. Seven days

The following strictly necessary cookies apply only to logged-in users:

Name Data stored Purpose Expires

wordpress_logged_in_{hash}

Your username followed by a random unique number or string of letters and numbers.

This cookie indicates when you are logged in, and who you are, for most interface use.

14 days
wordpress_sec_{hash}

Your username followed by a random unique number or string of letters and numbers.

Stores logged-in user authentication details (in WordPress admin). 14 days
wordpress_test_cookie "WP+Cookie+check" Tests that the browser can accept cookies.

When you close your browser.

wp-settings-{number} Serialised words and numbers in a single string. Used to persist a user’s wp-admin configuration. The {number} portion correlates the ID of the blog that set the cookie. One year
wp-settings-time-{number} A timestamp (string of numbers) Time at which wp-settings-{number} cookie was set. The {number} portion correlates the ID of the blog that set the cookie. One year
wp-saving-post {post-id}-saved Used to track if a saed posts exists for a post currently being edited. Up to one day