josephpalmer

So…make an intro.html file that has your flash intro (in the main directory) and then use the code above in WordPress’s index.php file and it should work for you!

Hi, I found the post that worked for me before:
(Thanks to @sarajty)

Hello,

I had the same issue with the index.html file repeating the Flash intro over and over again. I ended up re-naming the page intro.html and it solved the repeat issue.

Then in order for the intro.html page to load at the main URL, and load only once, I changed the index.php file to this:

<?php
    session_start();
    if(!isset($_SESSION['flashIntroShown']))
    {
        $_SESSION['flashIntroShown'] = 1;
        header('Location: https://yourwebsiteURL.com/intro.html');
    }

define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);

require('./wp-blog-header.php');
?>

I didn’t have to make any changes to the rest of the wordpress site. Hope that helps!

The original post was here.

Yes, I did find a solution to this question. But I ended by abandoning it because I wasn’t very impressed by the result.

I found the solution on the forum of my web hosting provider. I’ll try to find it again and post it here. I believe I just had to make the page with the flash animation and save it to the same folder as the wordpress home page. Then I had to change a couple lines of code in the wordpress home page so the flash page would load first, but only load once.

I’ll go look for the solution now.

With my hosting provider, this is how it worked:

I installed WordPress at

example.com/clothing

but then I had to tell the hosting provider that I wanted the clothing folder to refer to

clothing.example.com

Maybe you have installed WordPress here: sophieholterman.nl/clothing
but now clothing.sophieholterman.nl isn’t linked to that folder.

I guess I was thinking the best way would be to keep the flash page separate from the WordPress site…like when someone visits the site, index.html (with the flash animation) loads first, and when the animation is over, index.php (the WordPress home page) loads.
This way, after reaching the WordPress site, clicking the home page tab wouldn’t restart the flash animation.

Is this do-able?

Thanks for the good information! I understand this, but my boss would still like a flash intro. ??

Try deactivating and/or deleting the “Good Karma Press” plugin, and then re-installing it. If you deleted the file because of the virus scan, that’s okay, but probably the same file is necessary to make “Good Karma Press” work right.

I’m not sure, but it might help if you put the details of the videos’ locations, and your embedding process, so someone who knows more can specifically help you.

When you upload files, WordPress puts hyphens between words in filenames. If you can, look at the details of the file, and then adjust the filename accordingly.