Limit ability to publish form

Hello,

Thanks for the feedback!

The topic you linked already does what you’re asking for. The code provided there only allow the “Author” role with less than 5 posts to see a form.

You can adapt that code to use your custom role, with more or less posts allowed.

Hope it helps!

Have a nice day!

Regards.

Hello,

Yes, because this is where you will render the form using acfe_form('my-form') function. See Form integration documentation.

Template page my-page.php usage example:

<?php 
// WordPress header
get_header();
?>

<?php

// Display form to logged in user only (or any other condition)
if(is_user_logged_in()){
    acfe_form('my-form');
}
?>

<?php 
// WordPress footer
get_footer();
?>

Hope it helps!

Regards.

Hello,

Yes this code looks correct and should be included on the template page that will display the form (See the usage example in my answer above).

You cannot inlude that logic in a function tho. If you display the form using a shortcode in a WYSIWYG editor, you’ll have to add that logic in the acfe/form/load hook. See documentation.

In your case it would be:

add_filter('acfe/form/load/form=MY-FORM-SLUG', 'my_form_settings', 10, 2);
function my_form_settings($form, $post_id){

    // get current user
    $user = wp_get_current_user();
    
    // check for current user role CUSTOMER
    if(in_array('CUSTOMER', (array) $user->roles)){
        
        // get posts of the current user (by post_author)
        $check_posts = get_posts(array(
            'post_type'         => 'POSTTYPENAME',
            'post_author'       => get_current_user_id(),
            'posts_per_page'    => -1,
            'fields'            => 'ids'
        ));

        // count posts and display form if the user has less than 2 posts
        if(count($check_posts) < 2){
            
            // display the form
            return $form;
            
        }

    }

    // hide the form in any other case
    return false;
    
}

Regards.

Hello,

As explained above, this is not a code snippet that can be used as a function.

If you’re working with a page builder, I would recommend to simply use the [acfe_form name="my-form"] shortcode in your builder (See shortcode integration documentation), and add the hook from my answer above to add a conditional logic that will decide if the form should be rendered or not.

Regards.

Hello,

You should put WordPress hooks in your theme functions.php file.

Since this is an important concept in WordPress development, and as it’s outisde of this forum support field of competence, I would recommend to read more about WordPress hooks documentation here.

You’ll also find tutorials online:

– WordPress Actions, Filters, and Hooks : A guide for non-developers
– WordPress Hooks, Actions, and Filters: What They Do and How They Work
– What is: Hooks

Hope it helps!

Regards.

Hello,

Yes, because the the code “hide the form in any other case” (outside of the CUSTOMER user role) as described in the code comments. You’ll have to adapt your if() statement to display the form depending on your needs.

It looks like what you’re asking for is:

add_filter('acfe/form/load/form=MY-FORM-SLUG', 'my_form_settings', 10, 2);
function my_form_settings($form, $post_id){

    // get current user
    $user = wp_get_current_user();
    
    // check for current user role CUSTOMER
    if(in_array('CUSTOMER', (array) $user->roles)){
        
        // get posts of the current user (by post_author)
        $check_posts = get_posts(array(
            'post_type'         => 'POSTTYPENAME',
            'post_author'       => get_current_user_id(),
            'posts_per_page'    => -1,
            'fields'            => 'ids'
        ));

        // CUSTOMER has at least 1 post, hide the form
        if(count($check_posts) > 0){
            
            // hide the form
            return false;
            
        }

    }

    // display form
    return $form;
    
}

Note that I cannot guarantee that’s exactly what you’re looking for as I don’t have the specifications document of your project and I can’t do custom development for every users.

You’ll have to do some tests, trial & error, and adapt the code on your own here.

I hope you’ll understand.

Regards.

I’m sorry to hear that.

You may try to get some help from a developer to help you code the conditional logic you need. You could also ask some help on different development communities such as the WordPress development forum or WP Stackoverflow.

Regards.