New features: Conditional menu items

It’s a new feature I worked on the last week. It helps you to show/hide a menu item if a certain condition is fulfilled. Kriesi and I think that the feature can confuse some of our users – especially if they’re wp beginners and not tech savvy and we decided to hide it a bit. To activate it add following code to functions.php – insert it at the very beginning of the file (after global $avia_config) or in your child theme functions.php

global $avia_config;

add_theme_support('avia_conditionals_for_mega_menu');

Then go to Appearance > Menus and you’ll notice a new checkbox/option for each menu item. Tick it and you’ll see up to 4 additional option fields (depends on the dropdown selections)

The first dropdown allows you to select if you want to show or hide an item if the condition is fulfilled or you can also add a custom css class if the condition is fulfilled.

If you select the last option a new field will fade in which allows you to enter the css class(es).

The second dropdown allows you to select the conditional check (is user logged in, is user logged out, is user on a page, is user on a post page, etc.). Some conditionals (like is user on a page, is user on a post page) also allow you to filter the menu items based on an additional parameter (eg the post/page id). In this case another field will pop up where you can enter the additional parameter (i.e. the id of the post/page).

Overall I think I created a very powerful, extendable and logical ui which allows you to customize the menu quite easily – nevertheless you must wrap your mind around it and the new options definitely add some complexity to the theme/menu configuration..

Haha – no sorry :) – this is really just a “conditional menu” feature and does not “protect” your content or restrict the access to certain pages/posts. You can try use a membership plugin like http://wp-member.com/ or S2Members to protect your content. Btw this is also no “inconsistency” because wordpress doesn’t protect pages which are not shown in your custom menu too.