Making Private Posts visible for Subscribers

  • tony-stark

    (@tony-stark)


    14 years, 10 months ago

    Hi All!

    As always, loving WP 😉 I have setup a series of private posts which I want to visible by subscribers. it seems that out of the box this is not possible? I searched around and found this following link: http://sltaylor.co.uk/blog/wordpress-subscribers/

    I have added the code it stated to my functions.php in my theme but it doesnt seem to have worked (unless I need to restart PHP/Apache).

    Anyone know a good way/process of doing what I want without an elaborate group/permissions plugin?!

    Thanks

    Tony

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  • nouveller

    (@nouveller)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Let’s say you set up a category called ‘private’ first then you could use this on your single.php.

    The current_user_can('read') should detect that they’re at least a subscriber and in_category('private') will detect the posts you want to protect in that category.

    <?php 

	if(current_user_can('read') && in_category('private'){

		//insert your loop

	} else {

	echo "You are not permitted to view this posts";

	}

?>
    gregarose

    (@gregarose)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    Tony,

    Don’t know if you solved your issue but I think the reason your edits to function.php in your theme didn’t work is because the blog post you mentioned used this code:

    $subRole = get_role( ‘subscriber’ );
    $subRole->add_cap( ‘read_private_pages’ );

    This will allow Subscribers to see private Pages but not private Posts. You also need to add

    $subRole->add_cap( ‘read_private_posts’ );

    in order for your Subscribers to see private Posts. At least this worked for me. But now I have a problem that my private posts, categories that only have private posts and private pages do not show up in the widgets in my sidebar even when I am logged in as Administrator or as Subscriber. This happens for the Administrator even without the changes to function.php. I can make a category show up in the sidebar widget if I add one public post to it but I can’t make a private page show up at all. I don’t know enough about WordPress to tell whether a fix for this requires just an edit to the theme files or for the core WordPress files.

    Greg Rose

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