Wordpress agree to terms login

hargi · 1 Aug 2017 at 08:49

I need to make some authentication for a wordpress site.
Basically most of the site is hidden unless the user ticks two check boxes on a 'home screen' so its basically do you agree to x , y if so you can view/read the site.

Would this be done buy making the two tickboxes spoof a generic username and passsword, or should I be going down the sessions route?

Or any other thoughts on this?

gord · 1 Aug 2017 at 10:27

Do the hidden pages have proper user access controls? If they are locked down then you'll need to spoof the credentials in some way.

I'm assuming you don't want to put people off by having them register first. You just want them to agree to the terms, then browse the site, then register if necessary?

hargi · 1 Aug 2017 at 11:54

@gord

They dont even have to register with the site. Its just agree the terms and the they can view it

gord · 1 Aug 2017 at 12:12

Are you bothered about returning users being asked the question again? If yes then a simple cookie solution with a sitewide check is going to be the route, and you can add the cookie notification to the agreement box.

hargi · 1 Aug 2017 at 12:15

If they go away and come back then they will get asked the question again thats fine.

gord · 3 Aug 2017 at 14:58

hargi said:
If they go away and come back then they will get asked the question again thats fine.

Hmm, then a session would be suitable. Maybe a plugin like this would speed along your development, rather than trying to hook into the global var. https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-session-manager/