Question

We currently have a message option on our site that displays any message we add via the CMS to logged in users, but what would be the best way to offer a ‘hide’ option? This way if that particular user doesn’t want to see the message again they could hide it? Any suggestions welcome…

Answer 1

Assuming these are notifications/updates that users need to read, try something like this:

• When logging in, let the user know they have N new messages to read.
• If a user goes to the messages page to read those messages, update the date with the current time in a last_read_date column on their user metadata.

Now, to decide what messages to show on a given login, just check the last_read_date column against the date of each message. If the message’s date is in the future relative to last_read_date, they haven’t seen that message yet.