Comments on: Using Splash Screen Page in Joomla, Mambo, Drupal, WordPress

By: Ruby

Ruby — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:07:51 +0000

Like what Gigi said – this worked somewhat.

For me, all my direct links now lead to a “404 page cannot be found” error. Has anyone figured out a work around that problem?

By: Gigi

Gigi — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:40:56 +0000

This worked somewhat (H&W’s hack on Muhammed’s code).

I got the splash page when I typed in my URL.

BUT when I click on the link from my splash page to go to mydomain.com/index.php, I get the splash screen again and I’m stuck in an endless loop.

Hellp!

By: shrewser

shrewser — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:49:05 +0000

for WordPress: make new page WITH NO TITLE.

go to settings > reading

set front page to static. select BLANK from the pulldown (which represents the new page with no title).

from here you can style the new, untilted page with a different or modified template, or simply leave as-is. (i simply left my page styled like the others but added a slideshow in the content.)

wordpress will not display the untitled page title in the main menu, and no links will be active until you click them.

make sense?

By: ItsMe

ItsMe — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:35:30 +0000

This didn’t work for me.
I added the above code and now no matter which link on the splash page I click it always loops me back to domain.com/index.html. Even if I manually type in domain.com/index.php it brings me right back to the splash screen.

I don’t think this is possible actually unless you hack the core Joomla code.

By: Boris

Boris — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:01:57 +0000

Mmm, for some reason the link doesn’t show up in my comment (#22). Here it is in plain text:
http://www.ispace.nu/rainbow/archives/175

By: Boris

Boris — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:01:06 +0000

Hi,
for WordPress, I also wanted to have a splash page, but combined with a static homepage behind it.. And it all had to be within the WP dabase, to make sure it was SEO proof. I managed to solve it, you can read how here:

Hope this helps some of you resolve related issues!

By: irene

irene — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:35:49 +0000

Pls help me with other splash screen solution

By: H&W

H&W — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:29:20 +0000

JOOMLA SOLUTION
based on Muhammeds info –
1)
I changed his code to (single quotes):
if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) && $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']!=''){ } else { header('Location:index.html'); }

put it in the Joomla root index.php file at the top

2)
create an index.html file
I used the link in this file like:
just a normal plain link to your site - the previous php will know that you are in the same root and send you to homepage not the splashscreen

Save the index.html in your root of Joomla

Test:
- In browser address bar type your domain
- Your splashscreen comes up and you click your link.
- You arrive at your site in the Joomla template
- Click the “home” menupoint – and you should NOT see your splashscreen.
- Type your url again in the browser – and here is your splash again…
Seems to work for me…

By: Jonas jepsen

Jonas jepsen — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:28:42 +0000

Hi you nice people!

Muhammed, thanks for your tutorial on how to make a splash screen. Can you please tell me what the index.html should link to in order to go to the main page of Joomla (index.php doesnt work)

Cheers folks,

Jonas

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:45:03 +0000

Hi Muhammed
I use your trick but it didn’t work.

Any suggestion