14 May 2009

Splashscreen WordPress plugin version 0.20

Category: Wordpress

Cochinoman released the first version (0.01) for a splash screen for WordPress back in February.  Since then, I have gotten some requests for more features. One of the requested feature was a list of excluded pages that would not cause the splash screen to appear. This is required for pages such as the RSS feed page because the RSS reader is blocked from getting the information.

So I’ve created the new version (0.20) with the new settings screen as shown below:

Setup screen

Note that there is now an area to enter the list of pages that will be excluded.  The list is just the paths of the pages (without the domain name), and listed on separate lines.  Normally, you would have the following 2 lines:

/feed/
/comments/feed/

The first is to exclude the RSS feed for posts, and the second line is for the RSS feed for comments.  You might want to add some others to this list as well (e.g. terms of service, copyright, etc).

To download:
Download version 0.20 here from WordPress.org.

Hopefully, there will be people that will find this new version of the plugin to be useful. If you do, please encourage me to do more coding by making a small donation. Even just $1 will help.


Updated December 3, 2009:
Version 0.30 is released.

Posted Thursday, May 14th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Filed Under Category: Wordpress
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Responses to “Splashscreen WordPress plugin version 0.20”



  1. By Scott Hopkins on May 16, 2009 at 12:10 am

    hi,

    how does this affect the search engines being able to index a site? does this mean the can’t do that?

    thanks Scott

  2. By Scott Hopkins on May 20, 2009 at 12:45 am

    hi,

    i’ve been working with your plugin – thanks very much :)
    works great in firefox / safari / IE8 not sure about IE6. I have one issue that i would like to report tho… which is in IE7. maybe you are aware of it?

    IE7 – Click on the agree link – splash screen redisplayed – no access to site.

    refresh splash page and goes straight in to mains site

    exit browser

    start new browser – no splash page straight into site

    clear cookies in IE7 – goes straight into site

    clear cache in IE7 – shows splash screen

    I checked my template.htm javascript and it looks identical – i tried the default templates and they give same behavior i describe above.

    strange thing is it works fine in same browser from that test site you gave alexisbreeze.com

    any ideas?

    thanks Scott

    • By cochinoman on May 20, 2009 at 3:35 am

      The part where you clear the cookies in IE7 and the splash screen doesn’t appear is very strange. I assume you have cookies and javascript enabled. Are you testing on an external server or on your local computer?

  3. By Redth on May 25, 2009 at 10:56 am

    How about making splashscreen work with WPMU ?

    Right now it affects all blogs if used, not just a single one!

  4. By georgian on June 1, 2009 at 11:40 am

    I use splashscreen and all is ok (10x).

    I install WP Super Cache and if I press “I Agree” remain static and not go to my default page, BUT if I press “I Do Not Agree” is ok. Is redirected to google.com.

    If I uninstall WP Super Cache, all is work fine again.

    I don’t know what is happened.

    • By cochinoman on June 1, 2009 at 5:10 pm

      I am not familiar with WP Super Cache but I assume that it caches your pages to reduce bandwidth. If so, the problem is, the same page is requested with the splash screen and so the cache plugin thinks that nothing has changed and displays the cached copy (the same page). To make my plugin work with Super Cache, both plugins would have to be merged into one plugin.

  5. By georgian on June 2, 2009 at 1:26 am

    But if I press “I Do Not Agree” is ok.

  6. By georgian on June 2, 2009 at 3:09 am

    I find that onclick=”setsplash()” href=”" not work with cache. But,
    if I put onclick=”setsplash()” href=”my_home_page” is work fine..

    • By cochinoman on June 2, 2009 at 4:59 am

      This works because you are re-directing the page to a different page which is not cached. If you were go first go to your homepage to get the splash screen, then click “Agree”, this change will not work for you.

      The correct solution is to create a new plugin that has the cache and the splash screen combined in one plugin, or add some type of trick to make the cache plugin know that the page needs to be re-loaded.

  7. By letone on July 8, 2009 at 1:14 pm

    hi!

    great plug in.

    can i have a flash intro in the slash page?

    i made some tests without success.

    can you help?

    thanks!

    • By cochinoman on July 8, 2009 at 1:39 pm

      There should be no reason why a flash intro splash page shouldn’t work. Can you give me more information regarding your template?

  8. By letone on July 8, 2009 at 2:49 pm

    i’m working with fusion template, i even try to call the setaplash funcion from inside the swf without sucess :S

    • By cochinoman on July 8, 2009 at 3:02 pm

      Okay, I see what’s wrong. The SWF file itself contains the links “Agree” and “Not Agree”, right? And you’re trying to execute javascript inside your SWF, I assume. I don’t know enough about flash to know if this is possible to do. Is there a way you can have the links external to your flash? In other words, have your flash on top, then have your “agree” link below it in plain HTML?

      Alternately, if there’s a way to create cookies inside your flash code, you could replace the javascript with your own code. I don’t know if this is possible in flash or not.

  9. By letone on July 8, 2009 at 3:23 pm

    yep, you’re right, i have the links inside the flash. I use this function:

    on (release){
    getURL(“javascript:setsplash();”);

    }

    that should work, but isn’t working.

    I did a quick search and I think is possible to create cookies in flash.

    I really want to have a animation in my wordpress site, and don’t want add a directory because of the animation. With the splashpage plugin, what is the easiest way to do that?

    thanks

    • By cochinoman on July 8, 2009 at 3:34 pm

      I assume you have the function setsplash and setcookie defined in the HTML somewhere but not sure if the flash is able to access this function from within the SWF. Try replacing that with the actual setcookie code:

      on (release) {
      getURL(“javascript:document.cookie = “splash = 1;expires=”;path=’/'”);
      }

      The syntax might be incorrect (maybe single quotes are not right) so double check it before you try it but you get the idea.

  10. By BadBoy on August 9, 2009 at 9:37 pm

    hello there nice plugin i was looking for somthing like it but i have a question if i installed it it will block my page enterily? lets say i try to enter to http://www.mydomain.com and the splas weel come up? i have a movie online blog and i only want to block an adult categorie but not all other categories can this be done with this plugin?

    • By cochinoman on August 10, 2009 at 12:41 am

      Currently, what you want to do is not available with the plugin. Somebody else has suggested this as well and I will look into adding this feature in future versions.

  11. By eazy on November 18, 2009 at 5:23 pm

    Hi,i love this plugin,but how can i make linkex http://linkex.dk/ to verify links automatically with this plugin enabled?
    I have linkex installed on two sites and when i check
    link from first site linkex admin panel,then link gets not verified,because this plugin wont let linkex to check that link…
    any solution to fix it???,because when i have an adult site and make hardlink exchange,then its impossible to verify links,if this plugin is enabled,only way is to check links manually and disable automatic link check on linkex.

    • By cochinoman on November 19, 2009 at 3:19 pm

      I don't know how Linkex works but if they are looking for a specific URL, (e.g. website.com/linkex) you can add that URL to the list of pages to allow to be excluded.

      If that's not the way Linkex works, I'd have to add some features to make it work. I don't have time to look into Linkex at this time but if somebody else figures this out, I'll be glad to add it to the plugin.

  12. By epicure on November 26, 2009 at 9:25 pm

    Thanks! This is a good plug-in and so far the most matured among the ones I've found.

    One thing, though: to allow search engine bots, some plugins display the disclaimer as a separate div that covers the content, but still keeps the contents of in the source. Would you consider this option?

    • By cochinoman on November 29, 2009 at 2:26 pm

      Interesting. So the content is actually there but hidden behind the disclaimer, right? From a visual point of view, I like this idea. However, from a legal point of view, this might not pass the test because the content is actually still there. This could be an option for some designers who don't care about that.

      Send me the link of a sample website that does this so I can look at how they do the DIV and I'll put it into the plugin.

  13. By epicure on November 29, 2009 at 11:07 pm

    Thanks! It would be great if you would consider such an option.
    This is the plug-in: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-disclaim-me/



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