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Sessions

Powerful sessions manager for WordPress with sessions limiter and full analytics reporting capabilities.

By Pierre Lannoy·Role·Free
4.8(8 reviews)
·900 active installs·Updated 2 weeks ago
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As of April 2026, Sessions is a WordPress role plugin with 900 active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 8 reviews. It has been downloaded 24K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.4+ and PHP 8.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Top alternative: User Role Editor.

4.8/58 reviews
900active installs
24K+total downloads
6 yearssince 2020

Overview

Sessions is a powerful sessions manager for WordPress with a multi-criteria sessions limiter and full analytics reporting about logins, logouts and account creation. It relies on the standard WordPress sessions manager and add it extra features and controls.

You can limit concurrent sessions, on a per role basis for the following criteria:

  • count per user;
  • count per IP adresses;
  • count per country (requires the free IP Locator plugin);
  • count per device classes and types, client types, browser or OS (requires the free Device Detector plugin).

For each roles defined on your site, you can also block login based on private/public IP ranges, and define idle times for sessions auto-termination.

You can also set a maximum number of IPs used for each user – useful to limit credential sharin…

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Ratings & Reviews

4.88 reviews
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Compatibility

WordPress6.4+ requiredTested up to 7.0
PHP8.2+ required

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Changelog

Please, see full changelog.

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

HosterraHosterraPierre LannoyPierre Lannoy
Plugin Info
Version
3.4.0
Last Updated
Mar 20, 2026
WP Requires
6.4+
Tested Up To
7.0
PHP Requires
8.2+
Active Installs
900
Downloads
24K+
Added
Mar 24, 2020
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Tags

roleloginsessionprotectionauthentication

Developer

P
Pierre Lannoy
12 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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