Hi,
I'm looking at using the CAPA plugin to make a member website area. I'm using a sidebar menu for the main navigation and am toying with the idea of having a horizontal menubar that would only be visible to those who are signed in.... random visitors would only see the main navigation...

Anyone have any thoughts as to how to accomplish this so that I don't have to reinvent the wheel??

Thanks!

Ken

Maybe this plugin could work.

Hi Larry,
Thanks! It's close but no cigar, I'm afraid. It looks like the plugin will restrict (to members) a particular page showing up on the menu. What I'd like to come up with is an entire menu bar that is only visible to members.
Hmmm.... of course with eggs in my beer, I'd want to be able to have different menu bars for each level of membership... ;-)

Ken

Your request was intriguing so I started searching a bit and found this recently updated membership plugin which allow for securing conditionals which could wrap around the %pages or %cats or even some code in the sidebar. I may play around with this myself a bit.

Well I just tested that membership plugin and I think it does just what you want except that you can only have two top menus. But you could have one be the membership menu that only members can see and then restrict certain pages per their level.

I added the code below to where you normally put %cats and the category menu only shows if I am logged in.

<?php if(is_user_logged_in()){ ?>
%cats
<?php } ?>

I'm glad you asked the question as I wouldn't have found this membership plugin so soon.

Larry,
I didn't think of that! That is just way too easy and cool! Works great! (and big kudos for Flynn making ATA so darned flexible!)

For the site I'm working on (and using the CAPA membership plugin), I have a sidebar menu (with sub-menu flyout) ... no need for a plug-in, just css (I'll be posting the css here when I get the chance) using the new WordPress 3.0+ menu feature (I saved the menu name *not* as menu 1 or menu 2)

Using your code snippet (and using %pages instead of %cats) and making a new "Menu 1" -and assigned to the Atahualpa "Menu 1" - I now have a horizontal menu bar that is *only* visible to people who are signed in... i.e members. I'll populate that with member-only pages. As they say WOOT!! :-))

Thank you!

On another note... Thanks for the heads-up on the S2member plugin! That's looking very feasible for a membership website that is currently in DotNetNuke (shudder) and I will be converting to a new WordPress installation.. Great features!

Ken