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Chad Butler · ·
We’ve had some different tutorials on displaying menus based on login status – showing a different menu for logged in users vs. non-users. I also put together a code snippet and a plugin extension to automate this process. There’s even a tutorial on how to remove menu items based on login status.
This tutorial is an extension of those concepts to display different menus based not only on logged in status, but also a user’s role. Continue Reading →
Chad Butler · ·
One of the most common questions that I receive is how to display menu items based on login status. Because there truly are several answers with multiple options, it an become a little confusing, even to more advanced users. It really boils down to how to you want to construct your site and how do you want things to work?
I have provided different methods of doing this in the past, but that was often difficult for some users because you really needed to understand how to set up a child theme and do theme customizations appropriately. That is not easily within reach of all users.
So I have put together a plugin extension to make this process more automatic. Now you can handle everything through the WP Menus admin panel. It will automatically clone any menu areas of your theme, thus providing you with the ability to serve different menus for those menu areas based on whether a user is logged in or not.
Read more about this extension here.
Site members can download this and other extensions here.
Chad Butler · ·
Generally, menus are going to be filled with static items. A “set it and forget it” kind of thing. In those cases, there are some really good methods of setting up various menus to display based on a user’s login status (here and here).
But what if that’s the case? What if you have a menu that you will dynamically be adding content to and you just want one menu to do it all? This filter function might suit your needs.
Chad Butler · ·
Over in this post, I described a method of displaying different menus to users based on their login status by setting up your theme to display the different menus. But isn’t there an easier way that doesn’t involve theme edits?
Yes. And I’m glad you asked that question.
This method is even easier and simply requires you to drop the included code snippet into your theme’s functions.php file. You will need to update the variable names in the snippet to reflect your menu names.
Chad Butler · ·
In this example, I will show you how to display a different menu for users based on their login status for the WordPress TwentyTen theme. This process can be adapted to any theme (and using the same principles, could be adapted to use anywhere on your WP site).
Note: There is an alternate (and easier) method of doing this posted here. That post displays the method currently used on this site.
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