Limit to user role

Hi.

Yes you can exclude based on roles but it would require a small code snippet.
Here is an example where we exclude subscribers, contributors and authors:

add_filter( 'mycred_exclude_user', 'mycred_pro_exclude_by_role', 10, 2 );
function mycred_pro_exclude_by_role( $exclude, $user_id ) {

	// Exclude subscribers
	if ( ! user_can( $user_id, 'delete_posts' ) ) return true;

	// Exclude contributors
	if ( ! user_can( $user_id, 'publish_posts' ) ) return true;

	// Exclude authors
	if ( ! user_can( $user_id, 'read_private_pages' ) ) return true;

	return $exclude;

}

You can adjust this code and just exclude those roles you need and not all of these. The WordPress codex has all default capabilities documented but you might want to change which capability to check for if you use custom roles.

The above code goes into your child theme’s functions.php file and will only effect myCRED.

Once this code is used, all users who do not have a specific rank will be excluded from using myCRED. This means they will no longer have a balance, use any shortcode or widgets etc. Now, if your users have already started gaining points, then you would need to first set their balance to zero before adding this code otherwise they will still show up in leaderboards.

To exclude users with zero balances from the leaderboard, you can set the exclude_zero=”1″ shortcode attribute.

You can use that filter to exclude based on anything really. If you prefer to check a users role instead of a capability then that would work as well.

Yes you can manually exclude users as an admin and you can, if needed, exclude admins and editors from myCRED on the settings page.

I added in that filter in case that was not enough and we needed to exclude based on some other detail.