How to Display Blocks Based on Cookies?
📝 Note: This is part of the Otter PRO features library, which you can get from here.
| Enabling the Panel | Using the Condition |
| Example |
🖲 Enabling the Panel
Blocks visibility can be controlled using the Visibility Conditions that Otter brings in. These can be found under Block Tools, and clicking on them to create a separate panel.
After enabling the panel, open it to insert conditions. This article will present an example of Cookie-based visibility conditions:
This condition is based on the PHP cookies. These cookies are small fragments of data stored on a client browser, which makes the user recognizable.
🧰 Using the Condition
Using this condition, the website will recognize the user using the cookies and display / not display the blocks anymore.
1 First, pick the Cookie condition from the dropdown.
2 Insert the cookie's key in the field. This is equal to the cookie's name.
3 Pick the compare operator. It can be is True/False/Empty or if Equals/Contains.
📝 Note: Based on the operator, other fields may appear.
4 Select the block's behavior if the condition is met (Visible/Hidden).
💡Example
In the example below, we have created a cookie named user and inserted it in otter-blocks.php, then we have added the key inside the field.
💡Result
When the condition is met
When the condition is not met