How to Change WordPress Menu After Login: A Step-by-Step Guide

For example, you want to show logged-in users a link to their profile and a link to sign in or register for users who are not logged in. In this article, I will show you, how to change menu after login or show different menus to logged-in users in two(2) ways in WordPress.

Way 1: Using Nav Menu Roles plugins – This plugin will allow you to display your menu items based on the user role on your WordPress site. If you have a link in the menu that you only want to show to your vendors only, you can toggle that on the Menu page. Example :

Way 2: Using manual code:

1. In WordPress even if your theme has one menu location, you can still create multiple menus for the same location.
2. Go to Appearance » Menus, create two menus logged-in and logged-out.
3. After creating the menus, add this code to your theme’s functions.php file.

   function my_wp_nav_menu_args( $args = '' ) {
   
   if( is_user_logged_in() ) { 
       $args['menu'] = 'logged-in';
   } else { 
       $args['menu'] = 'logged-out';
   } 
       return $args;
   }
   add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_args', 'my_wp_nav_menu_args' );
   

That’s all you will see that you are logged-in visitors will see the logged-in menu and non-registered or logged-out users will see a different menu. This method allows you to create two different menus for your users so that you can freely update your menus for logged-in or logged-out users. Example:

I hope this article helped you show different menus to logged-in users in your WordPress site. For questions and feedback please leave a comment below.

How to change menu after login in WordPress