Try doing something like this.
<?php if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) {?>
<font color = “#306EFF”>REGISTER</font>
<?}?>
<font> is a deprecated & obsolete element and has been since the very early days of Standards and separation of presentation from data, if you have to add style try and do so from stylesheets, but if having to work directly on markup add the styles as ‘inline’ using the style attribute.
@mgrmn
I entered it like this:
<?php if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) {?>
To participate in Forums and Groups <font color = “#306EFF”>REGISTER</font> here
<?}?>
with the text widget and placed on the side bar but when a user logs in they could still see the “Register Message” although they can’t register once they are logged in. That is, the register page wasn’t loading anymore.
@hnla
Is your advice that I should remove <font>? If so, can I still use . Sorry am a newbie, learning as I go. All advice is appreciated.
Thanks
Benjamin
Can you post your exact code snippet as you put it, not loading probably means a typo in the code.
You can get an example code from https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_user_logged_in , it pretty straight forward. Not much coding knowledge needed.
And what @hnla means is that <font> tag has been deprecated, so use css something like
<p style="color:#306EFF;">REGISTER HERE</p>
“<?php if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) {?>
To participate in Forums and Groups <font color = “#306EFF”>REGISTER</font> here
<?}?>”
@mgrmn
I don’t know what is wrong but its not loading. here is the link.
REGISTER
Sorry I think, I see what you are trying to do, you are using a default Text Widget from wp admin-> Appearance -> Widgets -> A text Widget with the code you posted?
If so you can do the following
/wp-content/themes/YOURTHEME/fucntions.php (create functions.php it if does not exist)
than add this piece of code to the functions.php
add_filter('widget_text','execute_php',100);
function execute_php($html){
if(strpos($html,"<"."?php")!==false){
ob_start();
eval("?".">".$html);
$html=ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
}
return $html;
}
Now you can go to widgets and add a Text Widget to your sidebar and add a code like this
<?php
if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) {
echo "you are NOT logged in";
} else {
echo "you are logged in";
}
?>
@mgrmn Sorry for sounding so dumb. Can I put the code below with the text widget.
Please reply with an example. Like using example.com/register
<?php
if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
echo ‘Welcome, registered user!’;
} else {
echo ‘Welcome, visitor!’;
}
?>
Thanks in advance.
Benjamin
@mgrmn
[I see what you are trying to do, you are using a default Text Widget from wp admin-> Appearance -> Widgets -> A text Widget with the code you posted?]
Your above statement is correct.
Dumb was me, did not read correctly your question (sorry) updated my answer 11 minutes ago, try that, I tested it locally and works fine 🙂 the echo part you can change with your register code.
like echo '<a href="#">LINK</a>';
I put this on the side bar using the text widget.
@mgrmn
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I done the one for function.php
But I need a bit of explanation about the one below. Sorry in advance for disturbing you.
<?php
if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) {
echo “you are NOT logged in”;
} else {
echo “you are logged in”;
}
?>
Where should I put the link below in this above code lines? >>
echo’REGISTER HERE ‘;
Don’t worry,
The first part what you added in functions.php will make sure that we can put in php code into the Text Widget, this is normally not allowed. It will simply not parse the php code. And that is the reason why u don not see the desired results on your screen.
So now you can add a Text Widget and put in PHP code
So now the notice when a user is or is not logged in. In php ! means IS NOT as in !=, so here we go with your code
<?php
if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) { /* if the user != logged in */
echo "<a href='http://www.disqusnow.co.uk/register-2/'>Register</a>"; /* echo the link*/
} else { /* else if user is logged in */
echo "Welcome Back";
} /* closing the if else statement */
?>
Change the the http part, in echo "<a href='/register-2/'>Register</a>";
so it becomes this using http will give problems do to the eval()
<?php
if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) { /* if the user != logged in */
echo "<a href='/register-2/'>Register</a>"; /* echo the link*/
} else { /* else if user is logged in */
echo "Welcome Back";
} /* closing the if else statement */
?>
@mgrmn
I put the code below in the text widget but it just displaying the code on the site.
<?php
if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) { /* if the user != logged in */
echo “Register“; /* echo the link*/
} else { /* else if user is logged in */
echo “Welcome Back”;
} /* closing the if else statement */
?>
Thanks for all your help so far.
@mgrmn
I ran the code on php code test site and it showed the message below:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_user_logged_in() on line 2
@disqusnow
This will fix you up as long as you added that code to enable php in widgets!
<?php
if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) {
?><a href="<?php echo (bloginfo('url') . '/register');?> ">Register</a><?php
} else {
echo "Welcome Back";
}
?>
Can you send me your functions.php ? ol4pro at gmail.com (zip it first)
Or give me access to your admin panel (temporary)
@mgrmn
Thanks for all your help. I have emailed you the functions.php zip file.
I can give you the wordpress admin panel if you think its the better option.
Ok updated your functions.php, you added the code after the ?> closing tag at the bottom of your functions.php so, whatever php code you put in your widget would still not be parsed.
Now can do a simple test by just creating a text widget with the following
<?php
echo “Yes, php parsing works”;
?>
If the output of that is Yes, php parsing works without the echo” “; part You are set 🙂
@mgrmn I have emailed you. Hope you received it.
Yes I did, and replied, its not the code, but rather the code in your text widget.
You probably used something like echo (bloginfo(‘url’) . ‘ which will echo out http, eval and http will have problems so you have to use something like /register-2/ instead
There you go…
When you copy and paste code from here the “<– Quotation marks like those are copy and pasted wrongly!
Ill adjust your text widget with your register code 🙂 give me a few secs
All done 🙂 Have fun!
@disqusnow
If you add this code to the text widget it will work. I just noticed your register slug is different so I adjusted the code below. Tested and works!
<?php
if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) {
?><a href="<?php echo (bloginfo('url') . '/register-2');?> ">Register</a><?php
} else {
echo "Welcome Back";
}
?>
Nice.. I am glad it all Finally worked out for ya 🙂
