Reply To: Hide specific images or images by specific user role or specific user ID

[Vladimir]

Hi,

You can not make this via URE Pro user interface. Try this custom code. It hides all medial library items uploaded by user with ID=1 from users with roles event-admin or event-superadmin:

add_action('pre_get_posts', 'hide_attachments_for_role', 99);

function hide_attachments_for_role( $query ) {

    global $pagenow, $wpdb;
        
    if ( $pagenow !== 'upload.php' ) {
        return;
    }

    if ($query->query['post_type']!=='attachment') {
        return;
    }
    
    $user = wp_get_current_user();
    if ( $user->ID==1 ) {   
        return; // do not restrict super admin
    }
    
    if ( ! (in_array( 'event-admin', $user->roles ) || !in_array( 'event-superadmin', $user->roles ) ) ) {
        // do not hide media items uploaded by admin from roles others than above
        return;
    }
    
    $sub_query = "SELECT ID FROM {$wpdb->posts} 
                    WHERE post_type='attachment' AND post_author=1";
    $admin_list = $wpdb->get_col($sub_query);
    
    if ( empty( $query->query['post__in'] ) ) {
        if ( empty( $query->query['post__not_in'] ) ) {
            $query->set( 'post__not_in', $admin_list );
        } else {
            $list1 = array_merge( $query['post__not_in'], $admin_list );
            $query->set( 'post__not_in', $list1 );
        }
    } else {
        $list1 = array();
        foreach ( $query->query['post__in'] as $id ) {
            if ( !in_array($id, $admin_list)) {
                $list1[] = $id; // leave just allowed items
            }
        }
        if (empty( $list1 ) ) {
            $list1[] = -1;
        }
        $query->set( 'post__in', $list1 );
    }
}
// end of hide_attachments_for_role()