User Menus – Nav Menu Visibility

By Daniel Iser

Description

User Menus is the perfect plugin for websites that have logged in users.

The plugin gives you more control over your nav menu by allowing you to apply visibility controls to menu items e.g., who can see each menu item (everyone, logged out users, logged in users, specific user roles).

It also enables you to display logged in user information in the navigation menu e.g., 'Hello, John Doe'.

Lastly, the plugin allows you to add login, register, and logout links to your menu.

User Menus allows you to display menu items to everyone or restrict them to specific user roles. You can show a logged in user's avatar, username, first name, last name, display name, nickname, and email in the menu. Additionally, you can add a logout link, register link, and login link with optional redirect settings.

Includes a custom Menu Importer that will allow migrating User Menus data with the normal menu export/import.

User Menus is built by the Code Atlantic team, who create high-quality WordPress plugins that help you grow your WordPress sites.

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free User Menus – Nav Menu Visibility plugin.

menu visibility

user roles

nav menu

Screenshots

FAQ

To setup the plugin, go to /wp-admin/ > Appearance > Menus.
Add a menu item or choose an existing one to edit the User Menus settings.
To see the User Menus settings, expand the menu item that you chose in the Menu structure panel.
Select Everyone, Logged Out Users, or Logged In Users from the Who can see this link? dropdown.
Logged In Users: The Choose which roles can see this link radio button is selected by default. If no roles are selected, all roles can see the menu item by default. Once a role is checked, then only checked roles can see the menu item.
Logged In Users: The Choose which roles won’t see this link radio button is not selected by default. If no roles are selected, all roles still have visibility to the menu item by default. Once a role is checked, then only checked roles won’t see the menu item.
To show a logged in user’s information in a menu item, make a menu item only visible to logged in users. Click the grey arrow button to add a user tag (username, first_name, last_name, nickname, display_name, email) to the menu item label.
To add a login or logout link to your menu, expand the User Links under the Add menu items panel, check Login or Logout, then click Add to Menu.