Login/Logout in Top Menu

Well you can fudge it, hack it, or whatever you want to call it.

I need a login on my site so using plugin WP-Members, I set the site up with non dynamic menus (as they are) and then showed the source html in the browser

I grabbed the source from
<div id='wrap_all'>
to
</header>
which includes my menus etc.

Paste this in to your enfold theme header.php overwriting the code between the above mention html tags. (Backup header.php first)

Then I added a function to the header.php (just below wp_head();) to see if i was logged in and return a html string with the correct classes, ids etc. Copied from the code just copied. I’ve only shown the login/logout menu not all the others i have.

function my_login_status()
{
global $user_login;
$logout = get_bloginfo('url')."/?a=logout";
$login = get_bloginfo('url')."/members-area/";

if (is_user_logged_in()) {

$wpmem_login_status = "
<li id='menu-item-83' class='menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-top-level menu-item-top-level-3'>
<a href='http://mysite.co.uk/login/?a=logout'><span class='avia-bullet'></span><span class='avia-menu-text'>Logout</span>
<span class='avia-menu-fx'><span class='avia-arrow-wrap'><span class='avia-arrow'></span></span></span></a></li>
";

} else {

$wpmem_login_status = "
<li id='menu-item-83' class='menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-top-level menu-item-top-level-3'>
<a href='http://mysite.co.uk/login/'><span class='avia-bullet'></span><span class='avia-menu-text'>Login</span>
<span class='avia-menu-fx'><span class='avia-arrow-wrap'><span class='avia-arrow'></span></span></span></a></li>
";
}

Then where the actual menus appear in the html you just pasted in replace that with
<?php echo my_login_status(); ?>

So in essence you are hard coding your menus in the header. If you change a menu in the backend it wont have any effect.

Yeah its dirty, yeah its not a great solution, but hey, I cant believe login isnt already a part of such a great theme.

Cheers

n.b. if you require logout check then change you function href to have an extra / on the end
http://mysite.co.uk/login/?a=logout/

#bodge

• This reply was modified 10 years ago by darrenrhymer.

Hopefully my suggestion is understandable and will help someone.