Posted on : 19-04-2009 | By : Japh
Everyone wishes they could get rid of IE6, and now there’s a nice, elegant way to prompt users to upgrade! The website for IE6Update provides a snippet of code to place between the <head></head> tags on your website, which will then trigger a small warning bar on users of IE6 prompting them to update to IE8.
I liked the idea so much, I decided that rather than simply copy their code snippet for my website, I’d make a handy little WP Plugin I could install on any of my sites. Save me editing themes etc!
If you want the plugin, here it is: Download
If you want to know more about IE6Update, you can read their blog post about it Announcing IE6 Update – Help kill Internet Explorer 6
Update: The download link above now points to the WordPress official extensions directory for download.
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Thank you Japh, you are so crazy awesome.
Nick Pettit
Co-Creator of IE6Update.com
My pleasure! I think you guys did an awesome job, and I want to support the project
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Awesome! Thanks so much for putting together a WP-Plugin to make adding the ie6update code to any Wordpress blog a snap!
- You rock.
cool! more easy, more wordpress
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thanks for it!
I’ll be downloading it for sure!
Add me to the list! I have some botched custom conditional commented code on my site at the moment to do that EXACT same thing! Will be much more elegant to simply replace it with a plugin
Thanks for your comments, people!
WordPress have just approved the plugin’s application into their directory, so you can download it from there now!
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-ie6update
Works great, thank you
Wow… awesome plugin Japh!!!! On my more important sites, I custom do some ie6 harassment… but my wordpress ones, I just haven’t been bothered. You sir, have made the pathway accessible and awesome. I salute u!
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Hi…! This rocks. You rock. Thank you for sharing and helping people out. I send you a virtual beer
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Unfortunately, I can’t get it to work in Wordpress MU 2.8.6
Anyone else have problems with this?
I’ll have to check this out, I haven’t updated it lately, so perhaps it’s even a latest version issue.
Thanks for reporting it!