WordPress: Check if User is Logged In
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John Chow had a nice tip on his site today on posting an advertising link on your site and ensuring that it’s not indexed using nofollow. You can do this with a simple redirect page that John posts the code for.
I wanted to do this a little different. In my horizontal menu above, real estate is at a premium. I do have an admin link on there if I’m logged in… but for everyone else, that’s a blank spot. I decided, why not swap the content of that bar in the event it’s a visitor and not me? With WordPress, this is pretty simple:
<?php
get_currentuserinfo() ;
global $user_level;
if ($user_level > 0) {
wp_register(’<li class="menuitem">’,'</li>’);
} else {
echo "<li class=’menuitem’><a href=’/go/tla.html’ title=’Advertise on this Website’>Advertise</a></li>";
}
?>
I haven’t made a dime with Text Link Ads yet but I want to give it a good shot. It’s pretty inexpensive for my site… $35 per month and I get over 500 visitors a day. I look forward to serving some of these up!
Though I would I would revise the link it points to - now it asks you for your log-on details. Not the kind of page I wanted to be greeted with, if I were a prospective advertiser
/* If a browser has a user ID they must be logged in */if ( $user_ID ) :
echo “I am logged in”;
/* For everybody that doesn’t have one */
else :
echo “I am logged out / not logged in”;
endif;