Hi all - I’m trying to add a wholesale section to my website where you need to enter an approved password to get into that section. I followed the tutorial in the below link as a guide.
https://www.envision.io/blogs/ecommerce-pulse/80312001-how-to-add-a-wholesale-area-to-your-shopify-store-without-an-app
The required steps are:
- Ensure that the account log in is optional
- Modify code in theme.liquid
- Add wholesale templates
- Create wholesale products
- Update customers w/ wholesale tag
- Show a different navigation menu to wholesalers (by editing code)
I’m having issues on step 6. I’m told to look for the below script in my header.liquid (my Dawn theme has one) :
{% for link in linklists.main-menu.links %}
OR
{% for link in linklists[section.settings.main_linklist].links %}
And replace it with:
{% assign menu_handle = 'main-menu' %}
{% if customer %}
{% if customer.tags contains 'wholesale' %}
{% assign menu_handle = 'main-menu-wholesale' %}
{% endif %}
{% endif %}
{% for link in linklists[menu_handle].links %}
The only lines of codes that have ‘main-menu’ in my Dawn theme can be found below. I tried to update the below code with the above code and got an “Invalid JSON in tag ‘schema’” error.
{
"type": "link_list",
"id": "menu",
"default": "main-menu",
"label": "t:sections.header.settings.menu.label"
}
I’m very new to Shopify code (and a little bit lost!!!) and need some pointing the right direction. Please let me know if you need me to clarify anything! Thanks!!
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This is Possible but you are looking at the JSON code and trying to change the code in the wrong place. you must have to access your header.liquid file, add a conditional check to identify the menu item, then wrap the menu code as follows:
{% if customer.tags contains "your tag" %}
Add the code of the menu item here
{%endif%}
That should do it! Don’t forget to like & mark as a solution is this solves your issue 
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Hi @fliptoys ,
This code below should be enough. No need to change the JSON link_list since you are already calling the menu but its handle
{% assign menu_handle = 'main-menu' %}
{% if customer %}
{% if customer.tags contains 'wholesale' %}
{% assign menu_handle = 'main-menu-wholesale' %}
{% endif %}
{% endif %}
{% for link in linklists[menu_handle].links %}
Links here...
{% endfor %}
After spending some time looking at the liquid code in the header.liquid file and trying to locate the “% for link in linklists.main-menu.links %” line, i was able to find the line to replace by searching for “for link” and going through each line to see if it looked similar to the above line of code.
I followed the original instructions and the confirmation from both Made4Uo and Amit250850 motioned, and now I have a wholesale section that only customers with the “wholesale” tag can view wholesale pricing. Thanks for the push in the right direction!
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Is this the line that you replaced with the main code while also using the suggestion above?
Also, there was a secondary codes for desktop where he searched using ‘left’ and ‘center’. The only thing I could find was ‘mega’… is this the right place for the desktop code?
My code:
This is what I was to look for:
Thanks!
i have the same problem, but dont understand the solution, if you could please help ?
Hello - Im in Dawn as well and can’t find any code wording: linklist link_list main-menu. This last step is holding me up. Can you help? Thank you!
Hiya! Im having the same issue. Can you advise where I put this code please?
{% assign menu_handle = ‘main-menu’ %}
{% if customer %}
{% if customer.tags contains ‘wholesale’ %}
{% assign menu_handle = ‘main-menu-wholesale’ %}
{% endif %}
{% endif %}
{% for link in linklists[menu_handle].links %}
This is what I did for wholesale website functionality (shopify Dawn Theme 14.0):
theme.liquid:
Removed line 297: “ {{ content_for_layout }} “
Replaced with:
{% if template contains ‘wholesale’ %}
{% if customer %}
{% if customer.tags contains ‘wholesale’ %}
{{ content_for_layout }}
{% else %}
{% include ‘wholesale-note’ %}
{% endif %}
{% else %}
{% include ‘wholesale-note’ %}
{% endif %}
{% else%}
{{ content_for_layout }}
{% endif %}
Header-mega-menu.liquid
Line 10: “{%- for link in section.settings.menu.links -%}”
Replaced with: “{% assign menu_handle = ‘dawn-header’ %}
{% if customer %}
{% if customer.tags contains ‘WHOLESALE’ %}
{% assign menu_handle = ‘main-menu-wholesale’ %}
{% endif %}
{% endif %}
{% for link in linklists[menu_handle].links %}”
Header-drawer.liquid
Removed line 24: “{%- for link in section.settings.menu.links -%}”
Replaced with: “{% assign menu_handle = ‘dawn-header’ %}
{% if customer %}
{% if customer.tags contains ‘WHOLESALE’ %}
{% assign menu_handle = ‘main-menu-wholesale’ %}
{% endif %}
{% endif %}
{% for link in linklists[menu_handle].links %}”
main-search.liquid
Added below line 262 ( “ {%- for item in search.results -%}” 
So line 263 now reads: “{% unless item.tags contains ‘wholesale’ %}”
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I’m still using this too:) And I made the same edits that you did. However, I just realized that the wholesale menu does not show on mobile. Does it show for you?
