How show login popup to guest only and redirect logged in users?

Question

I have a menu item "Checkout". When clicked it links to the login popup prompting users to register/login/continue as guest and from there to checkout. How can I make that same button redirect to the checkout page if a user is already logged in? Using ELementor and Astra theme Thanks!

Answer 1

In a more "vanilla" setting (i.e. without a page builder and not using a modal or popup) you would have two basic approaches:

• a) generating a different menu
• b) redirecting from the target page

I would not generate a different menu because, in my experience, it seems a little more messy and less performant depending on the server and WordPress settings. I would use option B and I would not use the login in a popup/modal, using a function along the lines of the code you shared, but with a few tweaks:

add_action( 'template_redirect', 'wpse381189_dashboard_redirect' );
function wpse381189_dashboard_redirect() {
    // make sure i) we are not in admin side ii) we are not doing ajax iii) user is logged in.
    if( !is_admin() && !defined( 'DOING_AJAX' )&& is_user_logged_in() ) {
        nocache_headers();
        wp_safe_redirect( home_url( '/dashboard/' ) );
        exit();
    }
}

If you still want to use a popup/modal, you would need to use a function that returns data telling the frontend the user status (i.e. logged in or logged out) and let the Javascript handle the redirection. But this might be a little bit difficult because you are using a non-core page builder, Elementor, which is off-topic in this community and depending on the template you using, make most of WordPress core hooks unavailable. In this case recommend you take a look at Using Ajax articles on WordPress official documentation and then find in the page builder documentation how to handle Ajax and add your own scripts to it.

Answer 2

Probably somethin like this, but I don't know how to adapt it top my case:

add_action( 'template_redirect', 'dashboard_redirect' ); function dashboard_redirect() { if( is_page( home_url( '/min-konto/' ) ) && ! is_user_logged_in() ) { wp_redirect( home_url( '/dashboard/' ) ); exit(); } }