Title: Backbutton Hijack
Last modified: August 22, 2016

---

# Backbutton Hijack

 *  [biggestfreebets](https://wordpress.org/support/users/biggestfreebets/)
 * (@biggestfreebets)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backbutton-hijack/)
 * Is there a plugin that allows me to hijack the backbutton, so when a user visits
   my site and presses back to leave I redirect them to a different page?
 * I’m not strong at coding so a plug would be great, if not if anyway could guide
   me as to what I should add them would be fantastic

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)

 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backbutton-hijack/#post-5711476)
 * That sounds really not good and abusive. Though I do thing “hijack” is the right
   word.
 * Aside from alienating and annoying your viewers what do you hope to accomplish?
 *  Thread Starter [biggestfreebets](https://wordpress.org/support/users/biggestfreebets/)
 * (@biggestfreebets)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backbutton-hijack/#post-5711508)
 * it’s simply another way of pointing a user to something different, i.e another
   offer or something similar to what they came from. it’s no different than having
   someone at the shop exit offering that person leaving without a buying a better
   offer before they leave for good.
 * Is this possible via a plugin?
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backbutton-hijack/#post-5711512)
 * Yes I’ve seen this being done by a plugin with a title like “decrease your bounce
   rate”… “by 500%”.
 * >  it’s no different than having someone at the shop exit offering that person
   > leaving without a buying a better offer before they leave for good.
 * Well you’re not actually letting them leave are you, even if they buy something
   you still will disable the back button.
 *  Thread Starter [biggestfreebets](https://wordpress.org/support/users/biggestfreebets/)
 * (@biggestfreebets)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backbutton-hijack/#post-5711525)
 * yes but they can potentially buy something else right? i guess the only way to
   tell is by testing it if sales go up great if they go down then it’d be removed
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backbutton-hijack/#post-5711534)
 * There are plugins to do this kind of thing, but might not exactly disable the
   back button [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wbounce/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wbounce/)

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)

The topic ‘Backbutton Hijack’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [hijack](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hijack/)

 * 5 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backbutton-hijack/#post-5711534)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics