Using conditional menus with custom defined user roles

Hey!

Yes, you can add a custom user role check to the conditional menu function.

First you need to add a function to your child theme functions.php file which checks if the current user has the user role or not. You can use following code

if(!function_exists('avia_condition_customrole'))
{
    function avia_condition_customrole()
    {
        global $current_user;
        if( is_user_logged_in() ) foreach( array( 'customrole' ) as $role ) if( in_array( $role, $current_user->roles ) ) return true;
        return false;
    }
}

but instead of “customrole” insert your user role slug (by default wordpress uses following user roles: ‘administrator’, ‘editor’, ‘author’, ‘contributor’, ‘subscriber’). Make sure that you replace all occurrences of “customrole” in the code above with your user role slug – otherwise the function won’t work.

Then add following code into the functions.php child theme:

add_filter('avf_avia_menu_conditions','avia_add_conditional_options', 10,1);
function avia_add_conditional_options($options){
$options['avia_condition_customrole'] = array('title' =>__('My Custom User Role', 'avia_framework')),
return $options;
}

and (again) you need to replace “customrole” with your user role slug. The text “My Custom User Role” is used for the dropdown option label (text you see when you select the conditional). You can insert any other text instead. Afterwards go to the menu editor page and select the new option and save the menu.

Cheers!
Peter