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If Menu – Visibility control for Menu Items

By Layered

Description

Control what menu items your site’s visitors see, based on visibility rules. Here are a few examples:

  • Display a menu item only if User is logged in
  • Hide menu items if Device is mobile
  • Display menu items for Admins and Editors
  • Hide Login or Register links for Logged in Users
  • Display menu items for Users from US or UK
  • Display menu items only for Customers with active membership
  • Display menu items for visitors browsing with Language English or Spanish

The plugin is easy to use, each menu item will have a new option “Change menu item visibility” which will enable the selection of visibility rules (example in Screenshots).

Features

  • Basic set of visibility rules
    • User state User is logged in
    • User roles Admin Editor Author etc
    • Page type Front page Single page Single post
    • Is Archive page (year, category, search results, etc)
    • Visitor device Is Mobile
  • Advanced visibility rules – requires Premium plan
    • Visitor location – detect visitor’s Country
    • Visitor language – detect visitor’s selected Language
    • WooCommerce Subscriptions – Display menus for users with active subscription
    • WooCommerce Memberships – Display menus for customers with active membership plans
    • Groups – Detect if users are in specific groups
    • WishList Member – Detect the users’ membership level
    • Restrict Content Pro – Detect the users’ subscription level
  • Multiple rules – mix multiple rules for a menu item visibility
    • show if User is logged in AND Device is mobile
    • show if User is Admin AND Is front page
  • Support for adding your custom rules

Example of adding a custom visibility rule is described in the FAQ section.

Screenshots

  • If Menu website demo
  • Enable visibility rules for Menu Items
  • Example of visibility rules

FAQ

If Menu is broken, no visibility rules are available

There’s a known limitation with adding functionality for menu items in WordPress, and conflicts may happen between some plugins and themes.

If there are multiple plugins that extend Menu Items, for example If Menu and a plugin for Menu Icons, only one of them can add the needed functionality and the other one won’t work as expected.

This is an ongoing issue with WordPress which hopefully will be fixed in a future release.

If the “Menus” page is blank or options for visibility rules are not displaying, there is a way to test which plugin/theme causes this conflict.
Please disable other plugins or themes until you find the one that causes the problem, and contact the respective developers.
In the message include the link to WordPress ticket about menu items https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18584 where they can see detailed info on how to fix the problem.

Changes to menus are not saved

This problem may happen on sites with a large number of menu items.
In most cases, this is not a limitation or problem caused by plugins or WordPress, but by the hosting server.

Your hosting provider or server limits the amount of data that can be sent to WordPress for saving in database.
The setting is named “PHP max_input_vars” and it’s value should be increased, ex: max_input_vars = 200 to max_input_vars = 500.
Contact your hosting provider or make the change yourself if you have access. More details can be found here https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14134

How can I add a custom visibility rule for menu items?

New rules can be added by any other plugin or theme.

Example of adding a new custom rule for displaying/hiding a menu item when current page is a custom-post-type.

// theme's functions.php or plugin file
add_filter('if_menu_conditions', 'my_new_menu_conditions');

function my_new_menu_conditions($conditions) {
  $conditions[] = array(
    'id'        =>  'single-my-custom-post-type',                       // unique ID for the rule
    'name'      =>  __('Single my-custom-post-type', 'i18n-domain'),    // name of the rule
    'condition' =>  function($item) {                                   // callback - must return Boolean
      return is_singular('my-custom-post-type');
    }
  );

  return $conditions;
}

Where can I find conditional functions?

WordPress provides a lot of functions which can be used to create custom rules for almost any combination that a theme/plugin developer can think of.

Reviews

Horrible UI/UX

January 14, 2021
Not going to do it. This thing needs a better design. You can't even read half the rules

Functional and straightforward

January 11, 2021
Does what it says, simple and straightforward. No complaints or problems from this plugin. It'd be cool if we could instead of hiding, making a menu item disabled. Or even better, allow it to have a tooltip or modal message.

Simple and easy!

December 14, 2020
Gotta love it when a plugin is super simple and easy to setup and use! This one definitely fits that bill.

Premium version has no customer support!

December 9, 2020
I bought the Premium Version of the Plugin. On the same day, I recognized that the Plugin just integrates a very specific Groups-Plugin, but not Groups in general (which I think was kind of misleading in their marketing). I immediately wrote a message through the support form on their page and asked if they could send me a refund because I thought that the Plugin was doing something different than it actually does. I never got an answer. I tried it again, but nothing. That is not the priority support they say it is. Sad. The idea is great.
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Contributors & Developers

“If Menu – Visibility control for Menu Items” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

“If Menu – Visibility control for Menu Items” has been translated into 3 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “If Menu – Visibility control for Menu Items” into your language.

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Changelog

0.16.2 – 17 January 2020

  • Fixed – Error shown about the registered REST Api endpoint
  • Updated – Ensure compatibility with WordPress 5.6

0.16.1 – 11 April 2020

  • Fixed – Improved compatibility with other plugins that extend menu items

0.16 – 1 April 2020

  • Added – Visibility rule – Is Archive page
  • Updated – Ensure compatibility with WordPress 5.4
  • Updated – Improved compatibility with WooCommerce Membership/Subscription plugins

0.15 – 2 July 2019

  • Updated – Texts & styles for If Menu settings page
  • Fixed – PHP error that may appear for Visibility Rules saved before If Menu v0.9

0.14 – 2 May 2019

  • Added – “User registration is allowed” visibility rule
  • Updated – Improved support for setting multiple visibility rules, without eval function from PHP
  • Updated – Show Membership Levels from “WishList Member” plugin
  • Updated – Compatibility with WordPress 5.2

0.13 – 8 April 2019

  • Updated – Compatiblity with latest WordPress version
  • Updated – Texts & more info about Premium plan
  • Added – Visibility rule – User has expired Subscription, integration with Restrict Content Pro plugin
  • Updated – Visibility rule – Restrict Content Pro Membership shows Level number

0.12.2 – 3 September 2018

  • Fixed – PHP error blocking page load (function formatting language names)

0.12 – 3 September 2018

  • Added – Visiblity rule – Detect visitor’s selected language
  • Updated – Link to Support Request email
  • Fixed – Better check for Premium plan after purchase (was not enabled in some cases)

0.11 – 23 Jul 2018

  • Fixed – Blank page on “Appearance -> Menus”
  • Fixed – Better compatitility with themes / plugins

0.10 – 8 May 2018

  • Added – Visibility rule – User has Subscription Level, integration with Restrict Content Pro plugin
  • Fixed – Display all WooCommerce Membership plans and save the visibility rule
  • Fixed – Small render artifact in menu item title

0.9 – 21 April 2018

This version requires PHP version to be at least 5.4
* Added – Visibility rule – Customer has active membership, integration with WooCommerce Memberships plugin
* Added – Visibility rule – Customer has active Job Manager Listing Subscription, integration with Listing Payments for WP Job Manager plugin
* Added – Option to disable menu item filtering in Admin panel
* Updated – Texts and notices

0.8.3

Release Date – 22 February 2018

  • Fixed – Support for PHP <= 5.3, fixes error

0.8.2

Release Date – 20 February 2018

  • Fixed – Support for older visibilty rule names, fixes PHP warning

0.8.1

Release Date – 20 February 2018

  • Fixed – Better options checking, fixes PHP warning

0.8

Release Date – 19 February 2018

  • Added – Visibility rules with multiple options. Requires Premium plan
  • Added – Visibility rule – User country
  • Added – Visibility rule – Is Super Admin on MultiSite
  • Added – Visibility rule – User is in Group, integration with Groups plugin
  • Added – Visibility rule – User has subscription, integration with WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin
  • Added – Visibility rule – User has active membership plan, integration with WooCommerce Memberships plugin
  • Added – Visibility rule – User membership level, integration with WishList Member plugin
  • Updated – Better conflict detection for Nav_Menu Walker
  • Fixed – translation strings & function used

0.7

Release Date – 18 September 2017

  • Enhancement – Nicer styling for visibility rules
  • Added – Peek option – Let admins preview hidden menu items
  • Added – Settings page

0.6.3

Release Date – 17 August 2017

  • New visibility rule – Language Is RTL
  • Fix – Single rule works on servers with Eval disabled

0.6.2

Release Date – 8 August 2017

  • Fix – Backwards compatibility with PHP < 5.4

0.6.1

Release Date – 7 August 2017

  • Improvement – Change labels & texts for easier use
  • Improvement – Better compatibility with latest versions of WordPress
  • Improvement – Better compatibility with translation plugins
  • Fix – Detection for conflict with other plugins

0.6

Release Date – 27 August 2016

  • Improvement – Dynamic conditions based on default & custom user roles (added by plugins or themes) thanks Daniele
  • Improvement – Grouped conditions by User, Page or other types
  • Fix – Filter menu items in admin section
  • Fix – Better menu items filter saving code

0.5

Release Date – 20 August 2016

  • Improvement – Support for WordPress 4.6
  • Feature – New condition checking logged in user for current site in Multi Site [requested here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-user-is-logged-in-conditi
    on)
  • Feature – Added support for multi conditions thanks for this ideea
  • Improvement – RO & DE translations

0.4.1

Release Date – 13 December 2015

  • Fix – Fixes issue with adding new menu items

0.4

Release Date – 29 November 2015

0.3

  • Plugin icon
  • Set as compatible with WordPress 4

0.2.1

Minor fixes

  • Fix – Editing menus – show/hide conditions when adding new item (thanks Joseph Segal)

0.2

Update for compatibility with newer versions of WordPress

  • Feature – access to menu item object in condition callback (thanks BramNL)
  • Fix – alert for leaving page even if no changes were made for menus (thanks Denny)
  • Fix – update method in Walker_Nav_Menu_Edit to be compatible with newer version of WP
  • Fix – example in Readme (thanks BramNL)

0.1

  • Plugin release. Included basic menu conditional statements

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