Make block appear on some pages but not others

Question

How can I tell a block to appear on user profiles, like /user/1, but not on other pages where the beginning of the path is the same? So for instance, if I have a view set up at /user/1/articles, or user/1/messages, how can I tell the block to appear in the main user profile but not on the articles or messages pages?

Answer 1

I believe your only option is to use a PHP snippet to set the visibility.

Under Visibility settings select Pages on which this PHP code returns TRUE (experts only) copy and paste the snippet below.

<?php
if (arg(0) == 'user' && !arg(2)) return TRUE;
?>

For this to work you would also need to enable the PHP filter module.

Note that it's not generally recommended to use the PHP filter, but in some cases it might be the easiest solution.

Answer 2

Try making it visible only on

user

and only for authenticated user role.