If is possible to set a cookie to override the geo redirection

It looks like I was able to achieve the same goal with PHP. I added this to the header.php theme file:

if($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']
  && strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'],'no_redirect')!==false
  && !$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']){
    header("Location: ".$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'].'?no_redirect');
}

It’s only as reliable as the server referrer variable having information, but has worked in a pinch.

Any other ideas or methods anyone has found to carry the ?no_redirect through? I had also tried with .htaccess rewrite rules but with no success, so am using this PHP redirect method for now.

Best wishes.

A follow up – this also required this setting in the plugin to be checked:
‘Redirect only visitors of the site’s root’

Hello RedEarthDesign,

thanks for replying and your work around looks like it might allow my reseller to access the original site. I have added the code to header.php and it does what you suggest and it keeps the ?no_redirect when browsing through the original site. but I am not quite sure why if I go back to the landing page for the site why I am redirected to the reseller site.

If you happen to live in West Africa you can see this by going to https://eMarkingAssistant.com and you will get redirected but if you to https://emarkingassistant.com/?no_redirect you can browse the site until you return back to the main page.

If anyone has another solution (or plugin) to letting a reseller browse the site while redirecting all visitors from the target country I would be VERY grateful.

Peter Evans

Hi Peter,
We found yesterday also that if a link is not using WordPress’ innate link function like in content or in the menus, and is instead in a template or otherwise outside of the usual functions, it needs this kind of if statement:

$homelink = esc_url( home_url( '/' ) );
if ( strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'],'no_redirect')!==false) {
    $homelink = esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ).'?no_redirect';
}

We had to add this to a link in the header template that wrapped around a logo. Hope this helps!