Question

I understand that I can choose to show/hide a page for logged in users by using the following:

<?
if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
<li><a href="#">Link Title</a></li>
}
?>

But is it possible to show a page only to a certain user? For example I want ‘John’ to see a page but not ‘Bob’ so can I do something like:

<?
if ( is_John_logged_in() ) {
<li><a href="#">Link Title</a></li>
}
?>

Any advice would be brilliant!

Answer 1

you can use the function get_currentuserinfo(); to retrieve information about the current logged user.

global $current_user;
  get_currentuserinfo();

  echo 'Username: ' . $current_user->user_login . "\n";
  echo 'User email: ' . $current_user->user_email . "\n";
  echo 'User first name: ' . $current_user->user_firstname . "\n";
  echo 'User last name: ' . $current_user->user_lastname . "\n";
  echo 'User display name: ' . $current_user->display_name . "\n";
  echo 'User ID: ' . $current_user->ID . "\n";