WordPress - Check if user is logged in

Question

I am fairly new to WordPress. On my homepage I have a navigation bar which I only want to show to people who are logged in as users.

In my header.php the function is_logged_in doesn't seem to work.

I want to place a condition in my header.php file to check if the user has logged in (and then display the navigation).

Any advice would be helpful.

Answer 1

Try following code that worked fine for me

global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();

Then, use following code to check whether user has logged in or not.

if ($current_user->ID == '') { 
    //show nothing to user
}
else { 
    //write code to show menu here
}

Answer 2

I think that. When guest is launching page, but Admin is not logged in we don`t show something, for example the Chat.

add_action('init', 'chat_status');

function chat_status(){

    if( get_option('admin_logged') === 1) { echo "<style>.chat{display:block;}</style>";}
        else { echo "<style>.chat{display:none;}</style>";}

}



add_action('wp_login', function(){

    if( wp_get_current_user()->roles[0] == 'administrator' ) update_option('admin_logged', 1);
});


add_action('wp_logout', function(){
    if( wp_get_current_user()->roles[0] == 'administrator' ) update_option('admin_logged', 0);
});

Answer 3

Use the is_user_logged_in function:

if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
   // your code for logged in user 
} else {
   // your code for logged out user 
}