While working on the backend for a membership site we are launching later this year, we wanted to find a way with WordPress to hide widgets for logged in wordpress users, and vice-verse.

After several Google searches, I found the solution.

The plugin you need is (drum roll please……):

Widget Logic (click for link to plugin download)

Once you have downloaded and activated the plugin, you’ll notice a new input text field has shown up when you look at the widgets you have active in your blog:

The widget logic text field is what allows you to tell WordPress when, or where to show this widget. In this case, we don’t want to show the Facebook like box to our logged in members, but we do want to show it to our blog visitors. By inserting the !is_user_logged_in() conditional tag, we are telling wordpress to show this when the user is not (the ! is the opposite of the conditional tag) logged in.

I hope this helps anyone with membership sites out there control what widgets show up for their logged in members. If you have other solutions you’ve used on your membership site, please hit up the comments below and let me know.