creating page, need to create one time link

  • reelzwebdev

    (@reelzwebdev)


    6 years ago

    Hey there, love wordpress, not a fan of the way they built these forums, anyway…

    The use case goes like this:

    Customer goes to a page, on that page would be a form or some other way of collecting an email, when customer fills out form they are redirected to the page with the content on it. The page with the content would need to have some sort of way of disguising or changing the link, so that the customer would not be able to share it directly anywhere.

    If this was a file we could simply use a file download plugin that would create a hash link for each customer, however its a wordpress page with externally hosted files.

    anyone ever run into this, or is this something above and beyond wordpress’s limitations

    The base idea would be every customer has to go through the form in order to see the content, and there would be no bypassing the form through linking. I thought we could set a private page, but wordpress decided to make a page that is private truly private, and not just unsearchable or clickable directly.

    I wonder if htaccess could help with this

    Anyone?

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Joy

    (@joyously)

    I think you could modify the plugin that does a hash for downloads to just apply it to a page.
    Private pages are private, but Password Protected pages are not. The password could be shared though.
    There are membership plugins that control access to pages by having the user login. That is similar to what you are saying. You could just disguise it as something else if you want.
    Captcha plugins require you to enter something to see the content also.

    Thread Starter reelzwebdev

    (@reelzwebdev)

    Hey Joy,

    thanks for getting back to me

    I was wondering about that, Only download hash plugin I have ever used was in woocommerce, and that works great, even has a setting to “regenerate url”, do you have a plugin suggestion

    We do not want them to signup as a member, as that would be a bit more complicated, basically the page has a free film on it, we just want them to fill out a form that says we can send them a survey on the film after they view it.

    I am looking at a plugin called “before & After” however I am not having the results I want from it.

    any leads would be great

    Thread Starter reelzwebdev

    (@reelzwebdev)

    Just wanted everyone to know that NATIVELY wordpress fails horribly in this department. The software has a long way to go before its “running with the current” technologies. I was able to find a stopgap for it using a plugin, but as a core it lacks this ability completely.

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