Can we switch/change user role instead of adding new role to existing role?
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Hello,
I’ve been doing some testing with the plugin and I know that it adds a new user role (whether a role you created or the plugin created) to the existing role of the buyer of a subscription. For example if a user already had the role “Old”, and buying a subscription gives them a new role of “New”, then the end up with both roles at the same time. This is a problem when I use other plugins that allow things based on user roles and there is a clash so rather than adding a role (Old + New), can I switch/change the role and change it back upon subscription cancellation or expiration ie Old becomes New and then back to Old?
Thanks
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Hi @stephunique,
For what you’re trying to achieve, you can use the following custom code:
add_action( 'pms_add_user_role', 'pmsc_add_user_role_custom', 20, 2 );
function pmsc_add_user_role_custom( $user_id, $user_role ){
if( empty( $user_id ) )
return;
if( empty( $user_role ) )
return;
global $wp_roles;
if( ! isset( $wp_roles->role_names[$user_role] ) )
return;
$user = new WP_User( $user_id );
$user->set_role( $user_role );
}What the above code will do is that when a user registers and purchases a PMS subscription plan from your site, they will be assigned only one user role, and that user role is the user role associated with the plan they purchased. Now if their subscription plan expires or is abandoned, the user will lose that user role and instead get the default user role of your site (Dashboard -> Settings -> General -> “New User Default Role”). So basically with the above code, the users will only have one user role at a time.
Note: You can use the code by adding it to your theme’s ‘functions.php’ file or by creating a new plugin as described here.
Best regards,
Thank you PMS for this, I will test this and let everyone know how it goes!
May I ask another question, is it possible to make them return to their previous user role upon subscription expiration, rather than the default user role?
Hello,
Edit: The information below was checked before I updated my PMS version to 2.12.9. Then I saw there is an update, and updated the plugin. Thank you.
Regarding this:
->”The expiry of the subscription doesn’t have anything to do with the user role.”:
I thought that, if we create a subscription that allocates a user role to a buyer, then when they buy that subscription, they will get that user role (and using the code on this page, they should only get 1 role, which they do, so that is good). Then, when the subscripton expires, they should lose the role, and using the code on this page will result in the user gaining the site’s default role when the subscription expires.
->”you need to go to Paid Member Subscriptions -> Members -> and click on that member. There you can see the Status of the subscription plan and also the Expiration date.”
After waiting for some time*, it seems the subscription did expire , and the site’s default role is given to the user when their subscription expired. This is good. *This time is related to the cron job – I can fix that later, first I want to get this plugin up and running. I’ve created another test user and I will see again, if they expire in 2 days’ time.
->”Please provide the URL of the Registration form where you encounter this issue (from this specific site), so that I can also look at it.”
This is the URL of the test site, this is a test site and the content can change at any time: https://bandmemberswanted.com/pricing-2/
Thank you
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