Sridhar Katakam

Genesis and WordPress Tutorials

How to show different menus in Secondary Navigation depending on whether user is logged in or not

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In my Facebook group a user asked:

I love all your posts. I'm looking for help for something simple. I have a membership site, and I need to swap out my secondary menu based on whether the visitor is logged in or not.

Here are the requirements:

  1. For non-logged in visitors, show Login Menu menu in Secondary Navigation theme location. Add Login link automatically at the right.
  2. For logged in users, show Member Links menu in Secondary Navigation theme location. Add Logout link automatically at the right.

For non-logged in visitors:

secondary-nav-visitors

For logged in users:

secondary-nav-users

Step 1

At Appearance > Menus go to Manage Locations tab and assign a menu to Secondary Navigation Menu. It does not matter what menu this is. This is going to be replaced with one of the two custom menus you are going to create next.

Create two custom menus named Login Menu and Member Links and add your desired links. Note that the Login and Logout menu items are set to be automatically added.

Step 2

Add the following in child theme's functions.php:

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  • PERFECT! Just what I needed. Thank you so much. My membership here is one of the best investments I made last year.

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  • I have the same question as Mike, because I followed another tutorial here, to put the menu in the Header Right Widget. I’d love to be able to do this for my client’s members.

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      • Hi Sridhar, I used the code in http://pastebin.com/raw/JpsfJ1T3 but the result is not exactly what I was looking for. I removed the pastebin code from functions.php and for some reason the secondary nav will not go back to where it was originally. Do you know why this happens? And most importantly, can you please let me know how to undo the pastebin code? I’m using Cafe Pro theme. Thank you so much.

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        • Hi Sridhar, please disregard my previous message – I replaced the functions.php file with a backup functions.php file and the nav is now back in its original spot, so I’m good to go! Thank you for sharing your code, it’s very helpful!

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