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!
Hello…..! Just a great plugin Japh. You are doing a excellent job. Thanks for the post.
Been adding this manually to every WP installation I’ve done, and I just now thought to check if there’s a plugin. Thanks a bunch, this is really going to save me some time!
And it works with 2.9, so (after some testing, of course) you can probably update the compatability notice in the repository (which is currently at 2.7.1).
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