How to restrict content from Users with Specific roles in Wordpress? - php

Question

i want to hide ads for logged in user (subscribers). im using a plugin called "private" that generates shortcodes. i found the code i should use but dont know how to put it in my single.php. My single post is custom made so i cant use the rich editor.
the one i want to use...
[private role=”subscriber”]Content goes here[/private]
and i want to put this code in the middle position of my short code.
<div id="M589567ScriptRootC925056"></div>
<script src="https://jsc.adskeeper.co.uk/a/n/anime-tv.fun.925056.js" async></script>

Answer 1

You do not have to use [private] short codes to hide divs or ads in your case from logged in users.
Just use WordPress native current_user_can() function to target specific user roles like this in PHP file
if (current_user_can('subscriber')) {
//Hide something
} else {
//Show Something
}
You can do something if you want to hide something from all logged in users
if (is_user_logged_in) {
//Hide something
} else {
//Show Something
}
This code goes into your working php file or active theme function.php

Answer 2

There could be a much easier and versatile way to achieve that.
create a function to have the user role appear as a body class
function get_user_role() {
global $current_user;
$user_roles = $current_user->roles;
$user_role = array_shift($user_roles);
return $user_role;
}
add_filter('body_class','my_class_names');
function my_class_names($classes) {
$classes[] = get_user_role();
return $classes;
}
add a specific CSS class to posts, blocks, pages that you want to filter and declare display: none; or display: block; accordingly
Ex. I want to show a post to editors and authors but hide it to visitors, subscribers and contributors. So I add the class 'post-filter' to the post and add these lines to style.css
.post-filter,
.subscriber .post-filter,
.contributor .post-filter {display: none;}
.editor .post-filter,
.author .post-filter,
.administrator .post-filter {display: block;}
And that's it.