Footer bar and secondary navigation

[Jamal]

Hi
I would like to add a Login/Logout link to the footer bar by adding a custom menu with this code added in code snippets. When the secondary navigation is set to below/above header the login/logout appears alright but not when i put the secondary nav in the footer bar. Anyway to get a Login/Logout link on my footer? Currently i just have copyright text and no footer widgets. Thanks

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[Tom]

I believe you would have to register a new theme location: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_nav_menus

Then update “secondary” in your code with whatever you named it.

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[Jamal]

Seems not to be working. I registered new location with this

register_nav_menus( array(
	'footer_menu' => 'Login menu',
) );

and replaced “secondary” with both “Login” and “Login menu”. Anyway i can use generate_before_footer to do something like below, having them left and right aligned respectively?

Some plain text || Login

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[Jamal]

I took another option of editing the deafult meta widget so only login link remains and it works as far as i can tell. https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-meta-widget-in-theme-file/

Thanks

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[Tom]

Did you put it inside the after_setup_theme hook?

add_action( 'after_setup_theme','tu_register_custom_menu' );
function tu_register_custom_menu() {
    register_nav_menus( array(
        'footer_menu' => 'Login menu',
    ) );
}

Then you would have to apply your custom menu to that theme location in Appearance > Menus.

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[Jamal]

Doesn’t seem to be working even after putting it after_setup_theme hook. Below is full code i have

//Register custom menu
add_action( 'after_setup_theme','jam_register_custom_menu' );
function jam_register_custom_menu() {
    register_nav_menus( array(
        'footer_menu' => 'Login menu',
    ) );
}

// Add login/logout to the custom menu
function add_login_logout_register_menu( $items, $args ) {
 if ( $args->theme_location != 'Login menu' ) {
 return $items;
 }
 
 if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
 $items .= '<li><a href="' . wp_logout_url() . '">' . __( 'Logga Ut' ) . '</a></li>';
 } else {
 $items .= '<li><a href="' . wp_login_url() . '">' . __( 'Logga In' ) . '</a></li>';
 }
 
 return $items;
}
 
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'add_login_logout_register_menu', 199, 2 );

I have added a few other items to the custom menu http://i.imgur.com/Qam0M9p.png
Added the custom menu widget to the footer bar http://i.imgur.com/zqa6dSW.png
But it doesn’t show on the site http://i.imgur.com/TsvEMAp.png

Thanks for taking a look at this, would love to get it working using this method.

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[Tom]

In the $args->theme_location check, you want to use: footer_menu

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[Jamal]

No luck with that as well, Tom. Must be combination of footer bar and custom menu widget because even when using the secondary navigation as i was doing in first post it wasn’t working.

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[Tom]

Strange – are those the only menu items you’re wanting to add, or do you want others in there as well?

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[Jamal]

Just a login/logout link.

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[Tom]

Perhaps just stick this into a text widget?: https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/login-logout-shortcode/

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[Jamal]

I had to mull over it but in the end i went with your plugin suggestion and it works great. Thanks !

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[Tom]

No problem! 🙂

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