Pop up Geographic Map Selector to split site, how to?

  • Hi WP forums,

    I volunteer for a growing charity, the charity was originally started in the US and currently our wordpress site reflects that fact, but we are looking to make the representation look more even across the several countries we have expanded to. We were hoping to do this by using a pop up geographic map selector upon a user’s entry to the site (onto whatever page that may be). Once the user has selected their country we thought a cookie that remembered their country choice could then be used so that any further pages they click through to could be their chosen country’s version of that page (e.g. we have several donations pages, each one relevant to a different country we work in. If a user had selected UK on the pop up on a previous page and then clicked through to the donations page we would want them to see the UK donations page). Ideally something like xerox does here but in a pop-up:
    https://www.xerox.com/about-xerox/country-select/xxxx.html

    Is this at all possible with wordpress? My knowledge of coding is limited but I am keen to learn and would really appreciate any advice or pointers anyone can offer please.

    Cheers,
    Sam

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  • I’m not sure that cookies would be the best solution. You could have their choice append to the url and then use that to control what is displayed to them. So if they choose United States they would get something like domainName.com/?county=unitedStates.

    But the Xerox site is actually taking them to different pages like a US site, a Canada site, etc.

    Thread Starter sfielding2

    (@sfielding2)

    Thank you for the reply, i hadn’t even thought of that, that does seem like a better solution than cookies.

    In an ideal world I think we would have different sites, with similar/the same appearance as one another but different pages and content and menu choices, with links between the different countries where necessary. However because we are a charity we can’t really afford to create another wordpress site for each country (although that would be the best solution). So i think it will have to be one site that looks like more than one site (in menus/pages/page content).

    If the country choice was appended to the url could the visible menus on the country variable pages be different so it looks like a new site? (if that makes any sense)

    Thanks again,
    Sam

    Unless you are using domain forwarding, it will be the url of where the page is. So you could DomainName.com and then have that forward to OtherDomainName.com/CountyA. I’m assuming you want to do this because it is more user friendly?

    Thread Starter sfielding2

    (@sfielding2)

    Yeah hopefully it should be more user friendly. Is there anyway to get the pop up to come up on any page that a user enters on rather than just a home page? Sorry to ask so many questions, I seem to have set myself quite a difficult task considering my limited knowledge base in this area.
    Cheers,
    Sam

    Sure you can but I see this all the time. Take the time to write out or draw out how the site works. Think about stepping through each step. Once you start going down a path that is designed to go around a certain step, it can get messy and your original objective is lost. Maybe speaking to a professional would be helpful to help you plan out the site and logic.

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