Tony Stark
Member
Posted 2 years 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
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
Member
Posted 2 years 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
