Title: Flash Intro issue…Please help
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Flash Intro issue…Please help

 *  [pierrescottdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pierrescottdesign/)
 * (@pierrescottdesign)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/flash-intro-issueplease-help/)
 * Hi All,
 * I have uploaded a flash intro to my site on my godaddy server. I saw on the other
   forums that in the forums that I can add
 * DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
 * to my .htaccess file to point to the flash intro first and then have that page
   redirect to the index.php. But now all my page does is loads the index.html (
   flash intro) and keeps redirecting to itself no matter what page link I have 
   from my wordpress blog set to redirect to. Why is this the case?

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 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/flash-intro-issueplease-help/#post-1984993)
 * I wouldn’t use this method. If you **must** have a Flash intro – and I have [strong feelings](http://www.doineedaflashintro.com/)
   on the matter, but that’s another topic 😉 – I would use the [static front page](http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page)
   method.
 *  [Carrizo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emmclau/)
 * (@emmclau)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/flash-intro-issueplease-help/#post-1985210)
 * OK I don’t get I want to integrate this
    [http://videohive.net/item/particle-writing-logo-cs3/135467](http://videohive.net/item/particle-writing-logo-cs3/135467)
   in the very front page before going into the home page. How can I do that all
   I need to know is how to create the very first page to integrate this!
 *  [sarajty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarajty/)
 * (@sarajty)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/flash-intro-issueplease-help/#post-1985241)
 * Hello,
 * I had the same issue with the index.html file repeating the Flash intro over 
   and over again. I ended up re-naming the page intro.html and it solved the repeat
   issue.
 * Then in order for the intro.html page to load at the main URL, and load only 
   once, I changed the index.php file to this:
 *     ```
       <?php
           session_start();
           if(!isset($_SESSION['flashIntroShown']))
           {
               $_SESSION['flashIntroShown'] = 1;
               header('Location: http://yourwebsiteURL.com/intro.html');
           }
   
       define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
   
       require('./wp-blog-header.php');
       ?>
       ```
   
 * I didn’t have to make any changes to the rest of the wordpress site. Hope that
   helps!
 *  [Carrizo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emmclau/)
 * (@emmclau)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/flash-intro-issueplease-help/#post-1985242)
 * I don’t get it!
 *  [Heather Feuerhelm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heatherfeuer/)
 * (@heatherfeuer)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/flash-intro-issueplease-help/#post-1985254)
 * Thank you so much for this! I have a client who really wanted to keep the intro
   that she had when I moved her site from another CMS to WordPress. The static 
   front page option wouldn’t work since I already have the site set up that way(
   I’m using WP as a CMS). Your code worked beautifully!
 * One question: with the old CMS, we had a session cookie script set so that if
   a visitor came back within 24 hours, they would skip the intro. How can I make
   that work? Should I incorporate that code into the index.php file as well?
 * Thank you!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 5 participants
 * Last reply from: [Heather Feuerhelm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heatherfeuer/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/flash-intro-issueplease-help/#post-1985254)
 * Status: not resolved

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