Advanced Browser Check

By : Mattias

This plugin requires PHP 5.3 or above

This plugin give you the option to give a visitor of your site a warning popup if they use a browser that you don't support. For example, Internet Explorer 9 or lover.

It supports the 5 largest and most popular browser on the market.

  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Opera
  • Internet Explorer

You can customize the warning message, choose what browsers download pages you want to display a link to, select what browsers and browser versions that should trigger the popup and if the user can or can't hide the popup.

If you allow users to hide the popup, a cookie is set that expires after 24h. After 24h, the user will see the popup again with the option to hide it for another 24h.

This plugin is tested and works with the WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache plugins. It is also tested and working on WordPress Networks.

Supported languages

  • English
  • Hebrew
  • French

Missing a language? Want to add it? Fork the plugin from my Github, do the translation, do a pull request and I will happily add it.

If you run into problems, please check the FAQ. If you don't find and answer there, look in the support section if anyone else have/had the same isssue and if it has been resolved. Creating a new support ticket should always be your last resort for help. Thanks.

There is versions added of browsers that it not yet released as stable versions. This is to minimize the need of an plugin update in the future when new browsers are released and to let users try the plugin with beta and alpha version of the browsers. I will do my best to keep this plugin updated with the latest versions of available browsers.

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