WordPress 5 Cookbook

Displaying content for guests and members

Follow these steps to conditionally load different content for guests and members:

1. Open the wp-content/themes folder of your WordPress installation and open the functions.php file.
2. Add the following code at the end of the functions.php file to change the content based on user type:

function wpccp_chapter2_conditional_user_content($content) {  if( is_user_logged_in() ){    $content .= "<p>Additional Content for members </p>";  }  return $content;}add_filter('the_content', 'wpccp_chapter2_conditional_user_content');

3. Save the changes.
4. Visit one of the posts on the site using your web browser as a guest user.
5. Log in to the site using the details of an existing user account.
6. Visit the same post we used in ...