How to check if a user is logged in? in WordPress

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I am new to WordPress. In my theme in header.php, I want to set up different navigation bars for logged-in and guest users.

I want to add a condition in my header.php file to check if the user has logged in and then display one nav else display the other nav.

Any advice would be helpful.

2

The function you are looking for is is_user_logged_in()

You can write the condition like this.

if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
   // your code for logged in user 
} else {
   // your code for logged out user 
}

For setting up the menu for the logged-in user or guest user you can use the code below.

wp_nav_menu( array(
    'theme_location' => is_user_logged_in() ? 'logged-in-menu' : 'logged-out-menu'
) );

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