This is a follow on tutorial from the previous one: Menu only logged in users or certain users can see

In this one Ive added a few extra features. I suddenly thought about the previous tutorial example and saw that any logged in user can see the control panel menu in the sidebar and all the options within it. What if you only want users of a certain level to see the ‘Write New Post’ and ‘Write New Page’ options.

OK Im just gonna list the whole block of code for the sidebar login that I have implemented on this …

Here is the scenario:

You have a WordPress blog in a subfolder on your website. The main website might be static html or even php pages and you want to display your WordPress blog posts on the other ‘main website’ pages.

How do you do that?

Well I shall enlighten thee! Firstly I assume that you have your blog site in a subfolder (my subfolder is cms – so change this to your folder name), secondly if your other pages are html that is to say they are named ‘index.html’ you will have to rename them to ‘index.php’ etc. Now …

I thought I would add this as a quick follow on from my previous tutorial showing you how to make a login form in your WordPress sidebar (find it here), it used a technique to show a menu once a user had logged in.

So if you want to hide a menu from readers but show it to registered users you could use the following example:

Say you had a menu that looked something like this in your sidebar:

Registered User Menu

Registered user menu options here!

If you only wanted registered users to be able to see …

As you can see I use a sidebar login for here on Effutio.com that completely bypasses the standard WordPress 2.8 login screen page. No big deal you may be thinking but it is one less page that users have to wait to load, it adds a professional look and encourages people to login.

OK now that you are convinced that being able to login from home page (or any page where the code is placed) I’ll show you how to achieve it. Ive placed my login form at the top of the sidebar but feel free to experiment putting it …