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Sziro
Sziro

Reputation: 1303

Intro page in wordpress for first visit, with htaccess

I am trying to do an introduction page for a website. The trick is, i would only like the user to be redirected here on the first visit. E.g. if he has no session yet. (Although I am not familiar what else to use.) I have been told about .htaccess could do the trick. I use the wordpress engine.

Intro page: http://www.example.com/?page_id=5 (First visitors should be redirected here.) Index page under: http://www.example.com/ (Should not be changed for the engine's mechanisms. In fact this is a custom page too http://www.example.com/?page_id=1, but was selected to be main page in the wordpress options.)

Can you help me? Can you show me specific htaccess code?

Thanks, Sziro

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2066

Answers (2)

Nick Sweeting
Nick Sweeting

Reputation: 5891

Cookies may be more reliable than session variables in certain situations:

<?php
$redirect_url = home_url('/welcomepageurlhere');
    if ($_COOKIE['returningUser'] == '') {
        setcookie('returningUser','1');
        wp_redirect($redirect_url);
    }
?>

Place that snippet above the <?php get_header(); ?> line in your page.php template.

Upvotes: 2

xiankai
xiankai

Reputation: 2781

Can you edit your php files? php handles sessions more flexibly than .htaccess.

Basically something simple to put at the top of your header.php (before anything else gets executed).

<?php
    $redirect_url = home_url('/?page_id=5');
    if ( !isset($_SESSION['blablabla']) ) {
        $_SESSION['blablabla'] = "blablabla";
        wp_redirect($redirect_url);
    }
?>

This way whenever any page is accessed (since wordpress includes the header in requested pages), php checks if the session (specifically $_SESSION['blablabla']) has been set, if not then redirect to the home page.

Upvotes: 3

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