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WordPress 5 Cookbook
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WordPress 5 Cookbook

by Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
March 2020
Beginner
660 pages
18h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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We can create an unlimited number of menus in the WordPress menu section and assign them to different menu locations in the theme. In this scenario, we wanted to change the top menu for different user types and show different menu items. So, we created three menus called WPCookbookMenu1, WPCookbookMenu2, and WPCookbookMenu3.

The menu of the Twenty Twenty theme is loaded from the header.php template. So, we copied the template into the TwentyTwenty Child theme folder with the same path. Then, we removed the existing menu generation code and added custom code to include the conditional checks.

In the first part of the code, we created an array to store user roles and a menu name to display the respective user role. Next, we ...

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ISBN: 9781838986506