About: Mary Sullivan

I was passing on what I did for one of my sites, but it didn’t work for the second, so I will have to change that one and see where to put it! Sorry, you are getting my help sort of second hand. I know how frustrating that is. The fellow that was helping me had asked me to look in the pages.php file instead. You could try that?

Hi James,

Okay, here it goes.

1. Download a plugin called TagPages. This allows you to tag, well, pages.
2. In your Function.php file of your theme, add this code

register_nav_menus(array('primary-menu' => __('Primary Navigation', THEME_NS)));
register_nav_menus(array('secondary-menu' => __( 'Secondary Navigation', THEME_NS)));

This is so you can add a second menu to your site. It goes after the section (around line 93) that has add_theme_support and before function theme_header_image_script() {
3. In your header.php file you should have some code that is:

original code was --
 
   echo theme_get_menu(array(
             'source' => theme_get_option('theme_menu_source'),
             'depth' => theme_get_option('theme_menu_depth'),
             'menu' => 'primary-menu',
             'class' => 'hmenu'
         )
     );

So put in this code instead (overwriting the above code)

if (has_tag( 'private' ))  {
     echo theme_get_menu(array(
             'source' => theme_get_option('theme_menu_source'),
             'depth' => theme_get_option('theme_menu_depth'),
             'menu' => 'secondary-menu',
             'class' => 'hmenu'
         )
     );
 
} else {
 
 
     echo theme_get_menu(array(
             'source' => theme_get_option('theme_menu_source'),
             'depth' => theme_get_option('theme_menu_depth'),
             'menu' => 'primary-menu',
             'class' => 'hmenu'
         )
     );
}

4. Then go to your menus and add your new menu (I put all the usual items from the main menu in the second menu and added the private pages as well). You’ll see that you now have two levels of menus on Navigations section under Theme Locations. Choose your second menu (I called mine PrivateMenu) as your Secondary Navigation.
5. Under Pages, you will have another submenu called Tags, Create one called Private and then tag any pages you want to be private (and more importantly, included in the secondary menu) with this tag.
6. Finally, what I did is had my login page under “about us” go directly to mydomain.com/wp-login.php. Then the first page they come to is the login-welcome page. I now have the secondary menu showing. (I’ve created a user that has level 1 privileges).

This is all with the free version. I hope this helps. Sorry for the delay, but I had to work through how it was done myself!

Sorry, I mean does it depend on what theme we use. I use iThemes for some sites and they allow you to create different template pages, and you can drop a different menu into a template that would include the protected pages. So the page you create for your membership landing page would use that different template as would any private pages. So I’d call the new template = membership and any private pages would see that menu.

However, when I’m using a different theme that may say it only supports one menu, I have no idea how to add the different menu that includes the additional pages. And if you add them to your regular menu, you will annoy your viewers if they keep clicking on pages that they aren’t allowed to view.

That’s what I meant. It would be ideal if those pages didn’t show up in the menu at all unless the person was signed in. that’s what I would love to see. So if a moderator can tell us if that is possible somehow it would help both James and I!