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NickMcB
NickMcB

Reputation: 917

Different menus for different user roles

I'm trying to display two different menus depending on the user role.

I have setup a new role called 'clients' using this code (in functions.php):

add_role( 'client', 'Client', array(
    'read' => true,
 ) 
);

and I have two different menus using this code (in functions.php):

function register_my_menus() {
  register_nav_menus(
    array(
  'client-navigation' => __( 'Client Navigation' ),
  'staff-navigation' => __( 'Staff Navigation' ),

    )
  );
}
add_action( 'init', 'register_my_menus' );

here is the code which I'm trying to use to call either Client Navigation or Staff Navigation (in header.php):

<?php
        if (current_user_can('client')){
            //menu for client role
             wp_nav_menu( array('theme-location' => 'client-navigation' ));

        }else{
            //default menu
             wp_nav_menu( array('theme-location' => 'staff-navigation' ));
        }
?>

I've also tried adding 'echo' before wp_nav_menu and changing theme-location to menu and used the menu name, but it always shows staff-navigation menu.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2223

Answers (1)

brasofilo
brasofilo

Reputation: 26065

To use current_user_can, you should add your own custom capability.

Without doing that, as you're looking for the role, the following function, adapted from here does the job:

function check_for_clients() {
    global $current_user;

    $user_roles = $current_user->roles;
    $user_role = array_shift($user_roles);

    return ($user_role == 'client');
}

And then in your header.php file (note that you have a typo in theme_location):

if ( check_for_clients() ){
     wp_nav_menu( array('theme_location' => 'client-navigation' ));

} else {
     wp_nav_menu( array('theme_location' => 'staff-navigation' ));
}

Upvotes: 2

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