Redirect Comment Authors Based On Date

The 1st code snippet in the download folder redirects your comment authors to a specific page on weekends only.

The 2nd snippet in the download redirects your comment authors to 1 of 2 pages on your site based on whether it’s a weekend or a weekday.

Watch the following video to see how it works.

Demo Video #

The following demo video shows how the comment author is redirected to the page named Weekend when leaving a comment on a Sunday.

Tested using the Genesis Sample child theme by StudioPress however will work in any Genesis child theme.

Redirect Slugs

If its a weekend, your comment authors are redirected to a page with the slug /weekend

wp_redirect('/weekend');

If its a weekday, your comment authors are redirected to a page with the slug /weekday

wp_redirect('/weekday');

Swap out the slugs to match whats in your pages permalink.

Here’s both code snippets for registered free members :

Code Installation #

Using a code editor & FTP or cPanel, add 1 of the code snippets from the download folder to the end of your child themes function file.