Conditional for browser use?

Noticing that some plugins don’t work with some specific browsers, i am hoping to add one (that uses a shortcode) but would like it to NOT display when the user is using a specific browser. Is there such a thing as a way to use the browser in a conditional?

Basically you mean like to make a black list for each browser? So this plugin can’t run on this browser, things like that?

– Eduan

Something like that. I have a shortcode to place something on some pages, but i know that it is not yet compatible with some browsers, so if i could have something like this:

if browser <>  IE 9:
    [shortcode]

So, if the viewer is using IE9 (as an example), dont bother showing what the plugin wants to show (in this case it is something like “refer-a-friend” plugin).

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by  cassel.

I see.

Well there might be a plugin that does this, however I’m only aware of how to detect the current browser in the HTML header, to load different styles and JavaScript, other than that I don’t know how to detect it.

It might be worth checking Google to see if it has anything to say about “wordpress detect browser plugin” or something like that.

– Eduan

Thanks for the pointer. I found this plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/php-browser-detection/
I might be able to do just what i wanted to do. It might be useful to others too.

Glad you found something! Let’s hope it works correctly for our needs. :)

– Eduan