MEMBERs Stay Logged In

[fitaholic]

How do I allow my members to stay logged in, so they don't have to resign in everytime they return to the forum?

www.fitaholic.com/forum

[Opserty]

Tell them to tick the "Remember Me" checkbox.

[fitaholic]

How can I, the admin, make this automatic for each user?

[theOZer]

You can also bump-up the Session Timeout.
AdminCP > vBulletin Options > Cookies and HTTP Header Options, under Session Timeout.
Remember that's in seconds, so 3600 is 1 hour.
~OZ

[fitaholic]

I did that but it keeps guests showing in stats as viewing.......

[Opserty]

Changing the session timeout will have very little effect. I'd recommend you undo the changes.

It is best to leave it as it is. Not everyone wants to save their login, for example if they are using a shared computer or browsing at work or something. I think the default set-up is just fine.

If you still feel the need to edit it, you will need to the template which contains you're login form and change the checkbox HTML to have a checked="checked" by default. Since you're using a custom style it would be best to contact the author of the style for further guidance on where to edit.

[fitaholic]

thank you

[theOZer]

I didn't fully read the actual initial question. Opserty's on it, Session Timeout isn't relevant here. Apologies.

[Spank]

you can also use This
It makes the Remember me checked by deafult. That way those that don't want to stay logged in can just uncheck it.

[fitaholic]

Thank you Spank. That worked perfectly.