[pmwiki-users] Directing users to the wiki homepage

Simon nzskiwi at gmail.com
Mon Oct 13 18:15:11 CDT 2008


I support allowing "deep linking",
after all if you have visitors why discourage them.
Use the sidebar, footer, or header to show a table of contents for the
news page, or a last modified time for the news page - with of course
a link

Simon

On 08/10/2008, Sandy <sandy at onebit.ca> wrote:
> You can put the news on the login page, and require people to log in
> before seeing anything. The password can be included on the login page.
> It would annoy people, but it would work.
> Sandy
>
>
> Graham Archer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I put "news" and other useful info on the front (home) page of the wiki.
> > I'm finding that users are bookmarking other often used pages and
> > returning to them directly.
> > As a consequence the user misses the news information on the front page
> > and then bumps into issues that I was trying to alert the user to in the
> > first instance. :-(
> >
> > Is there a way I can direct users who come to the wiki through the side
> > door (i.e. a previously bookmarked page) to the wiki homepage and then
> > perhaps allow them to get to the original target page?
> > I'd be interested to hear if other wiki admins have solved this
> > situation in other ways too .
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Graham
> >
> >
> >
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