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Making Visitors Close Messages
aery
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Vanilla Version: 2.1
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where messages are displayed
Problem: In settings, users have option to dismiss or close the message posted by admin. Is it possible to have same option to close the message for visitors? It is illogical to display welcome message again and again to some repeating visitor.
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I can't think of an easy way to do this.
You would have to create a unique guest session for each visitor, no?
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only if you integrated something with matching ip addresses. but then again there would be flaws.
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Rightaaa.
That's why I thought of hiding it with jquery instead.
Is this workaround good?
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the other option is to make it an autodismiss message that goes away by itself after a certain time for non-logged in users.
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Autodismiss? Is it possible by jquery?
I know what I am exploring tonight.
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Aha! setTimeout is the required function. Let me implement and check
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You can probably do something with cookies and some JavaScript.
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