Show user role specific navigation menu

[sruefer 0]

Hi, I am trying to show different navigation for users depending on their roles and capabilities. On a different theme (Swatch, from Woo Themes) I could implement that by modifying the header.php file, essentially replacing the original navigation and writing PHP conditionals, e.g.

	if (current_user_is("Subscriber")){
	    wp_nav_menu('menu' => 'User Menu');  // Specific User Menu created with custom menus
	}
	elseif (current_user_is("Administrator")) {
	    wp_nav_menu('menu' => 'Admin Menu');  // Other specific Menu created with custom menues
	}
	

but I cannot get this to work with PageLines. I am using the Base theme and I copied the nav section over from the parent theme. Then I modified the section.php file to add a menu name depending on user role, but it does not work. I think the problem is that I do not want to assign a theme location (because then I have to select specific custom menu). Any idea what I can do to make that work? Thanks a lot, Steffen

[catrina 103]

Can you please paste the code you used for the section.php file?

[sruefer 0]

Hi Catrina, I think I found the solution; I modified the function "section_template()" in the section.php file of the nav section. Below is the modified function code: [code] function section_template() { $container_class = ( ploption('hidesearch') ) ? 'nosearch' : ''; printf('

', $container_class ); // --- My own Modification to display alternate menus depending on user role --- // $menu = ''; if (current_user_is("s2member_level1")) { $menu = 'Main Basic'; } elseif (current_user_is("s2member_level2")) { $menu = 'Main Pro'; } else { $menu = 'Main'; } if (current_user_can('administrator')) { $menu = 'Main Admin'; } if(function_exists('wp_nav_menu')) wp_nav_menu( array('menu' => $menu, 'menu_class' => 'main-nav'.pagelines_nav_classes(), 'container' => null, 'container_class' => '', 'depth' => 3, 'fallback_cb'=>'pagelines_nav_fallback') ); else pagelines_nav_fallback(); // --- End of Mod --- // echo '

'; if(!ploption('hidesearch')) get_search_form(); echo '

'; } [/code] Basically what I did is: - Created $menu parameter, assigning the custom menu name depending on user role (I am using the s2member plugin, which creates additional roles). - Removed 'theme_location' from wp_nav_menu - Added 'menu' to wp_nav_menu That seems to work for now :)

[catrina 103]

Cool, thanks for letting us know.