Internet Explorer User Agent Group

  • Resolved guyblueboat1

    (@guyblueboat1)


    4 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    I’ve recently developed a theme that includes a complete escape for internet explorer users using the is_ie() function built into wordpress.

    Unfortunately when I cache with your plugin, IE users are served the cached version of the site intended for other browsers.

    I’ve identified some ie users by creating a user agent group using the user agent ‘ie’ but the results are inconsistent.

    Is there any way to mirror the functionality of the is_ie() function to serve a specific cached version of my site only to ie users like other user agent groups?

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    Hello @guyblueboat1

    Thank you for your inquiry and I am happy to assist you with this.
    The problem with IE is, well it’s IE. As you stated you created the user agent group using the agent ‘ie’ and you have inconsistencies. This may happen because of the different versions of the IE and also possibly, the users that already visited the website and now being served with the version for other browsers. In this case, deleting the browser cache may help.
    Here is the list of IE user agents
    I hope this helps!

    Thread Starter guyblueboat1

    (@guyblueboat1)

    Thanks @vmarko,

    I’ve updated our user group to:
    msie
    trident/

    which seems to cover most IE instances as per your list.

    For future documentation, or on the intro copy to the user agents page, I think it could be made more clear that you’re entering a sub-string that is part of the complete user agent.

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