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Just give them the same target. Call it anything apart from “blank”.

DOH!

Thanks Mika – just found another method that seems to work. It adds a “members only” nav menu option to the wp menus page 🙂

I’ll show it here just incase anyone wants to do the same:

Add to functions.php

register_nav_menus( array(
		'primary' => __( 'Primary Navigation', 'twentyten' ),
		'members' => __( 'Members Only Navigation', 'twentyten' ),
	) );

In header.php
Replace
<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'container_class' => 'menu-header', 'theme_location' => 'primary' ) ); ?>

With…

<?php
//if the user is logged in, members only menu appears, if not, global menu appears
if ( is_user_logged_in() ) :?>
<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'container_class' => 'menu-header', 'theme_location' => 'members' ) ); ?>
<?php else :?>
<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'container_class' => 'menu-header', 'theme_location' => 'primary' ) ); ?>
<?php endif;?>

🙂 The more I learn, the more questions I seem to have.

Going to wrap this up on a very positive note. For anyone crazy enough to want to create their own alternative to the ugly? default dashboard:
1. Create your own page with any links and info you want your users to see.

2. Download this fantastic little plugin and put it in your mu-plugins folder (if you don’t have that folder already then just create it in wp-content). Plugin on this thread:http://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-redirection-to-child-site-from-main?replies=15

3. The plugin will do 2 cool things for you – if a user logs in on the main site, it will take them straight to their own site. The default landing page will be their admin page, but if you’ve created your own dashboard page you can modify the plugin and replace the “wp-admin” bit with your new page eg. “welcome”.

And that’s all there is to it!

OK, on a different tack….

Unless someone tells me otherwise, php is not possible within dashboard widgets.

So… Suppose I created a new dashboard page. I could add anything I wanted to that, infact it would be a lot easier.

Then I can arrange so that when a user logs in, they go to the new page instead of the dashboard.

OK so far, but what happens if they login on the main site instead of their own subsite… how can I still take them to the “dashboard” page I’ve created on their own site?????

Thanks Mika, need a wee bit more help with this though..

how would you incorporate this as html? Like this?
<a href="get_bloginfo('url')">Site Home</a>

I’m using a plugin called “custom dashboard widget” but it only lets you add html, not sure about php??

Thanks – that’s all it was as you suggested – I’d been putting /wp-admin
instead of just wp-admin !

http://www.studiopress.com/ 🙂 their hallmark theme is called Gensis.

I know that, Mika.

Well, so much for the best support from the themes crowd… 🙂

Happy ending though, a nice guy on the wpmu Dev boards steered me towards this excellent tut: http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/creative-coding/how-to-integrate-the-wordpress-media-uploader-in-theme-and-plugin-options/

I now have a shiny new “upload your logo” button in the wp appearance menu! Seems to work perfectly and does exactly what I was after.

See you when the next problem crops up
Cheers

…………….. busy looking up Genesis & DevPress……………….