Selective display of menu items

Hello

I am using the Suffusion template. I would like to know if there is any way that S2Member can control the display of individual menu items. e.g. I want some menu items appear if a user is logged in and others to appear if a user is not logged in. I have found some plugins which do give that control but Suffusion seems to over-ride them and that functionality disappears. I thought that maybe S2Member had some direct way of dealing with the problem rather than using a 3rd party plugin.

Thanks for any information

Andrew

Hello Andrew,

I believe s2Member offered an option for this under Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Restriction Options -› Alternative View Protection.

– Eduan

Hi Eduan

thank you – I have had a look and checked the Nav Menus box but, apart from that I have found no way to activate the menu protection: nothing appears in Appearance >> Menus or anywhere else I could identify. I looked in the help but could not find anything either. Can you please point me in the right direction?

Thanks a lot
Andrew

Hi Eduan

I think I have worked out how this works BUT… how do I do this for Login and Logout… Hmmm … I guess I could do it if there is a shortcode for login and logout… Actually I think I can hide an protected page (Logout – which can appear once someone is logged in) BUT how do I protect an unprotected page/menu item (Login – which MUST appear when no one is logged in and disappear after someone has logged in)?

I will keep looking but would appreciate your opinion on this conundrum.

Thanks very much
andrew

Just to clarify…

I have a menu item called “LOGIN”. It is visible when no one is logged in.

Someone logs in then:

(a) LOGIN disappears
(b) LOGOUT appears

When the user logs out LOGOUT disappears and LOGIN appears.

I know that there are plugins which allow for visibility of menu items but they are in conflict with my preferred theme (Suffusion). Hence my question.

Thanks
Andrew

You could use PHP conditionals for that. Check under Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Advanced PHP Conditionals. :)

– Eduan

Thank you Eduan

I will try that. I guess I cannot control wp-login.php this way, but I should be able to create a page with shortcodes using a shortcodes plugin and control that page.

Let’s find out… I will report…

Andrew

Looking forward to the results. :)

Well … you may be disappointed with the result (I was). In fact, I did not solve my problem. I did come up with an acceptable workaround though (a solution of sorts I guess).

My initial problem was to have Login, Logout and Registration tabs appear and disappear in the menu according to the login status of the user. I could have done this with a menu visibility plugin but those I could find conflicted with the theme I was using (Suffusion). I found I could control the tabs with S2Member for pages that s2Member could control using “Alternative View Protection”. However, I could not control the tabs which accessed wp-login.php or other non-pages.

I therefore found a login/logout plugin which came with shortcodes, put the shortcodes in a page, surrounded each shortcode with s2If statements. The result is that now I only have 1 tab called something like “Login/Logout/Register” which is always visible but whose content varies according to the status of the user. It is not what I wanted but it does the job (a good start), it is relatively clear and elegant and easily changeable if necessary and not too space-consuming.

Cheers and many thanks for your great help Eduan.

Andrew

Glad you found a solution that works for you Andrew. :)

Glad I was able to provide some help. :)

If you need anything else just post it. ;)

– Eduan

Thank you so much Eduan. The whole forum owes you a debt of gratitude. You do so much for all of us!

Cheers
Andrew
PS. I think I did ask another question that you can help with ;-)

Thanks! Some thanks are plenty for me. I am voluntary after all. :)