Display page menu only when logged in

Hi, yes you can protect the whole content. Have you enable the protection feature found at the end of a page or post in edit mode? Please check the following documentation. Scroll to the page titled Applying Content Protection.

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Hi, thank you for your quick response and the documentation. Yes I did that. The content is protected indeed but the link is still showing on the navigation menu. For example, I put Package 1, 2, 3 as not protected and Package 4, 5, 6 as protected content. Only content are protected but the links of Package 4, 5, 6 are still there (although when you clicked the link it said you need to logged in to able to view it). So basically, it’s not just the content I want to protect it’s the entire link and content as it should look like it’s not existing when it’s not logged in as a member. Any idea? or perhaps some code to inject on php something like “if not member { do not show link }”.

Hi, one of the plugin developers will reply back to your request.

Regards

Thanks mbrsolution. I want to share my quick solution here but I prefer this functionality coming from your end on admin dashboard without injecting code if possible:

<?php
if (is_user_logged_in()){
<display client links only>
}
else {
<do not display client links>
};
?>

Hi,
simple membership plugin only protects content. it doesn’t control the look and feel of your site. if you want to control menu then you will have to customize it.

Hi amijanina, thank you for getting in touch with me. I believe this is not about look and feel. Am not even talking about CSS or JS here where I can simply turn on using “display: block” and turn off to “display: none”. This is still a backend side. It’s about the security that only exclusive member able to see the links, just like the content. Even I turned it off, it will still display on the source code on the front end as this can be a loophole to security.

I’ve been searching and testing other plugins like S2 Member Framework, and it works with them on not showing the link when member is not signed in. The reason I chose your plugins because it’s just “simpler” compared to them. Hope you can help whatever “customize” you’re mentioning. Thank you.

Hi mfam0627,

I used Nav Menu Roles Plugin to hide menu depending on user roles before I used membership plugin.

I am testing membership now so I think I know what you meant the menu will appear but the login person must have the membership level to view it. I want to advise you why this membership is what I prefer:

By displaying the menu, the visitors and members of lower level can see what they are missing out on the higher membership level. This may attract them to join or upgrade. So you can set up message to attract them to join or upgrade when they click on it. The option is there to have a msg.

If you prefer to hide the menu, may be the nav menu roles can be used or like you said, your code already written.

Thanks

mfam0627,
look and feel related feature doesn’t mean that its about css, js, html. as you know, a significant part of wp theme code is written in php. s2member works with menu doesn’t necessarily mean that it has to work with simple membership. our core design principle is to keep it really simple and easy. we try to implement features that 90% of the plugin users look for. menu integration is not something that we see very frequently being requested. if we see that and if it can be done not in some hacky way then we will consider adding it to core plugin. but for the time being, you can do it like the way Hotham did.

Thanks,

Hi Hotham, thank you so much for suggesting this plugin. I think this is something I’m looking for and this really helps on my development.

Furthermore, I got your point on the membership but I wanted so far is to have “exclusive” members whom I want to give the a special privilege membership only and they can’t simply register on our public website. You can say that they are our direct business partners which will be given a special packages or prices only. But you’re right sooner or later I will also need to implement a lower level membership to attract them to join or upgrade.

With some helpful people like you, I think I’m going to start to like and be here more often on the WordPress community. ??

Hi amijanina, I understand that this is not something the feature designed on your end (for now) and I totally respect that. I think what Hotham suggested is good enough for me.

Thank you for taking your time to read and reply to me. Hoping to see your plugin grows further. ??