Customer Capability php code for pages (as opposed to posts)

#1

The following code is based on examples in s2Member documentation. Since categories and tags appear to be post specific, is there a creative way to accomplish this type of custom capability logic for pages?

if (is_category (“music”) && !current_user_can (“access_s2member_ccap_music”))
{
header ("Location: ". S2MEMBER_MEMBERSHIP_OPTIONS_PAGE_URL);
exit ();
}

Thank you!

#2

Hi james,

That conditional seems fine. I’m not sure I understand what your question is, though. Do you mean checking that condition for all pages, without adding it to each individually? If so, you’d need to find a hook/filter when showing a page, and add your hack there.

:slight_smile:

#3

Hi Cristian,

My assumption was category labels and the if_category function only works for posts. In my situation I’m using pages. If if_category also works on pages how do I add a category to a page?

(I only showed a snippet of the code. Code including filter/hook per s2Member documentation example was added to the theme’s functions.php file.)

Thanks for you help.

James

#4

I haven’t tried it, but maybe with a plugin that lets you use WP’s taxonomy with pages. I think this one does that: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-tags/

Then try the category or tag restriction and see if it gets applied to those pages.

Let me know how it goes. :slight_smile:

#5

Hi Cristain,

I tried a couple different plugins for adding categories to pages. I ended up on Taxopress. All plugins tested seemed to do a good job adding categories to pages. But the php code kept failing.

After spending time debugging the php code it became apparent the problem was the is_category function. It was always returning false even if it appeared it should return true.

After doing some research I tried using the in_category function instead. Using this function, the php code began working as intended. Solved.

On a related note, while poking around at all the category screens in WordPress, I stumbled across the “Require Custom Capabilities?” field on the WordPress Page -> Edit -> sidebar. I had not noticed that before. It provides the same functionality I was originally looking for without the php code. Would have saved me a few hours of php debugging!

Thanks for your help,

James

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#6

Hi James,

Thanks for the update! Well done sorting that one out.

I see, I thought you tried the editor’s s2 box first, and then looked for a custom solution, maybe for the more complex condition, or to apply it to many pages in bulk.

:slight_smile: