Hide blocks to non-logged-in users in WordPress

Discover in this tutorial how to hide the content of any block to non-logged in users in WordPress, using code.

Depending on the website you have and your strategy, there are times when you may want to display different content depending on whether the user is logged in or not.

In today’s tutorial you will see how to control that the content of a block is only shown to logged in users, combining the filter pre_render_block with the conditional tag is_user_logged_in.

Let’s see how:

Steps to hide the content of a block from not-logged in users

1. Choose the block you want to hide

First, choose the block whose content you want to be visible after login.

If you want this to apply it to more than one set of blocks, you can choose the group block as the container.

2. Add a custom CSS class

Once you have created the block, go to the “Advanced” section and add hide-not-logged-in under block’s “Additional CSS class(es)”.

3. Modify the block content access

Add the following code at the end of functions.php or in your functionality plugin:

In this code you use the filter pre_render_block, which allows you to access all blocks attributes, together with the conditional tag is_user_logged_in.

In it you indicate that if the users are not logged in and the block has the CSS class hide-not-logged-in, they will not be able to see the block content. On the other hand, active subscribers will be shown the complete block, just as you created it.

In the example you give the order to display an empty message so that the users without login do not see anything. But if you prefer to show a text indicating that, to see the content, they must login on their accout, you can modify it as follows:

$message ='To see the content you must login';

However, keep in mind that when using a PHP filter you have the limitation that you will only see the result in the web frontend, in the backend the changes will not be reflected.

Conclusions

Now you know how to make any block visible only to users who are logged into the web.

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