Idle Timeout not working correctly

Check the plugin settings, I have seen somewhere to disable this.

Hi Regine:

That’s a total pain. Sorry. Are you taking over 30 minutes to write the posts? If so, there are several options.

Easiest is increase the timeout length.

More importantly, I can’t count how many times I’ve lost work in web forms. I’ve learned the hard way (though sometimes still forget) that when I’m writing something long and/or important, to write it out in a text editor on my desktop (saving every few minutes). When I’m done, copy and paste it to the web form.

That aside, another possibility that may work is to keep another tab/window open. Before submitting your post, click around the admin section in that other tab. If you have hit the timeout, you can log in there, then come back to your post window.

I experience something similar: I have the timeout set to 60 minutes, and routinely take more than 60 minutes to work on longer posts (we tend to publish more essay-like posts than asides). Despite the fact that I periodically click “Save draft”, I still get logged out automatically 60 minutes after my last login. Since the setting is called “Idle timeout”, I would have expected that the plugin would only log me out if I’m actually idle, not if I’m using the interface (ie: frequently clicking “save draft” ought to be evidence of non-idleness). I have since disabled the option altogether. (I prefer not to copy-and-paste from Word or LibreOffice, as the formatting that appears in the subsequent html is nightmareish, contrary to WordPress’s claim that it gets cleaned up automagically).

If detecting a non-idle login is beyond the scope of the plugin, perhaps it would be best to rename the setting from “Idle timeout” to “Automatic logout”, and indicate that all logins will be logged out regardless of activity.

Otherwise, I like the plugin!