If no restrictions, user sees everything

[NewCollege Communications]

this is moved over from https://wordpress.org/support/topic/if-no-restrictions-user-sees-everything?replies=3#post-8685810

Thank you for your reply and again, I am sorry for posting in the public space.

Would it be possible to modify the user’s meta at run time so that if the user does not have a category set, I can set it to 999999999? Is there a hook for in the vicinity of the functionality that checks this?

[Vladimir]

No problem.

The only custom filter which is currently included to URE’s code related to the edit restrictions items at user level is ‘ure_post_edit_access_authors_list’.

$value = apply_filters('ure_post_edit_access_authors_list', $value);

I will add more custom filters with a next version possibly.

You may use a general WordPress ‘get_user_metadata’ filter from get_meta_data() function:

$check = apply_filters( "get_{$meta_type}_metadata", null, $object_id, $meta_key, $single );

Here:
$object_id : $current_user->ID,
$meta_key : $wpdb->prefix .’ure_categories_list’

In both cases you should check if you set the category for this user or not yourself inside those filters.

[NewCollege Communications]

perfect. I will give it a try

[NewCollege Communications]

I ended up with

function filter_users_for_no_community($null,$object_id,$meta_key,$single){
  global $wpdb;
  $theMeta = $wpdb->prefix . 'ure_categories_list';
  if($theMeta === $meta_key){
    remove_filter( 'get_user_metadata', 'filter_users_for_no_community', 10 , 4 );
    $cats = get_user_meta($object_id,$meta_key,$single);
    add_filter( 'get_user_metadata', 'filter_users_for_no_community', 10 , 4 );
    if(!$cats){
      $value = '99999999';	
    }
  }
  return $value;
}

add_filter( 'get_user_metadata', 'filter_users_for_no_community', 10 , 4 );

thanks for your help

[NewCollege Communications]

coming back to this after debugging a bit. I would nix the above code if you see a bunch of 502 errors.

[Vladimir]

If such filter ends with high server load, another workaround is to use an additional role for no-community users instead of work with every user meta data. If you allow that no-community role with access to unexisted post, like ID 99999999, users with that role will see an empty posts list.

From my side I will look if I may add to URE own custom filter to change a default behaviour of edit restrictions add-on. So if you set such filter then all users without restrictions will see nothing.

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