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Allow commenting only users with specific role

  • behandlung

    (@behandlung)


    7 months, 2 weeks ago

    Hello everybody,
    is there an option to allow only a specific user role to comment on posts?
    We have a paid membership and only these members should be allowed to comment.
    Unfortunately, I only found the moderate_comments permission, but this does not match the option I am looking for.
    Is there a feature like write-comments or similar that can be implemented?

    thanks a lot for your help!

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  • Plugin Author Vladimir Garagulia

    (@shinephp)

    7 months, 1 week ago

    Hello,

    It may depend from a theme you use. Example below works with 2021 theme:

    add_filter( 'comments_open', 'comments_on_condition', 10, 2);
        
function comments_on_condition($open, $post_id ) {
    
    if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) {
        // no role - no comments
        return false;
    }
    
    // replace roles below with your own, which can comment
    $roles_with_comments = array(
      'administrator',
      'role2'
    );
    
    $user = wp_get_current_user();
    if ( empty( $user->roles ) ) {
        // no role - no comments
        return false;
    }
    foreach ($roles_with_comments as $role)      {
        if ( in_array( $role, $user->roles) ) {
            // role can comment, return the global $open
            return $open;                    
        }
    }
    
    // no comments for all others
    return false;    
}

    You can add it to the active theme functions.php file or setup as a Must Use plugin.

    Thread Starter behandlung

    (@behandlung)

    7 months, 1 week ago

    Thank’s a lot for your help!!
    I will try 🙂

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