Redirect New Registrations to specific forum...
 

I have looked - but not been able to find a hack that will send a user to a specific forum after they have confirmed their email.

We have a "Site Tutorial" forum, which contains a number of rules and requests in respect to posting, and finding info on our site. I have a note in the Welcome Email as well as the Welcome PM asking members to read the important threads within this forum...however - most people don't even visit the link (member tracking via Who has read a thread). This results in members constantly either doing the wrong things - or messaging Mods/Admins with "How do I...." requests. It's gotten to the point that I am (and my Mod/Admin team) using the Signature plug-in for Firefox to have canned-text to create a reply telling them all the info they need is listed in the linked forum... (getting really old).

What I'm looking for is a way to have new members automatically redirected to this forum upon their confirming their email address.

Does anything like this exist - or could anyone create it?


Thanks in advance for your assistance!!

Anyone?

Please?

:)

if you're using cmps you are better off making a special cmps page for them.
www.vbadvanced.com/

We use vBPortal - hate vbadvanced.

Still doesn't do what is wanted - as there is a full section that I want to direct them to - not just a single page - and we would Not be able to track "Who Has Read".

i seem to recall an older hack that redirected new users to a section to read a thread created for them. there's also a hack that PM's new users. you could add all the info in that PM.

lol - info is in the Registration PM and email - but like I said - I can track who has read the forum/thread - and 99.9% of them never even read the info contained within either correspondence - let alone visit the link...

You just want them to visit a specific forum? Why not just put a link to in the email confirmation template?

This can be done with a simple meta redirect in a phrase i'd imagine.

Do you have email confrimation on?

Search for the registeremail phrase, then copy and paste the old content in the new box, along with

ya, phrase, thats what I meant. o.O

OMG - Thank you!!!!!!!

I never even thought of that!

^^^^^Works perfectly!

I really can't thank you enough!!!