Is author

There is no such shortcode in s2Member. In any event. s2Member shortcodes are concerned with the current user, or what that user can access, and not with other matters on a site.

I think you are getting confused with the WordPress PHP conditional is_author. But that’s not a shortcode. It’s in PHP. And it doesn’t mean what you think: it refers to an author’s archive page.

I think you want something more like the following PHP code: if(post->post_author){

If you don’t know how to use that, then ask on the WP forum or use Google, or hire a developer. This is not an s2Member issue.

Oh ok thanks.

I must of really misunderstood this then:

“Maybe you need to change the way something appears (or even what details are given), based on the current Post or Page, the current Post Type. Or, perhaps based on what Tags that content may have, what Category it’s in, what Sidebar it’s in, if it’s Sticky or not, who authored the content, etc.”

I was under the impression I could display something based on “who authored the content”- it is what it says on their conditional shortcodes page.

No, that’s about changing what appears according to the type of restriction that you have placed on that content.

So what you could do is tag the posts by a particular author, and then restrict by tag. But that doesn’t use a shortcode.

Cool, thank you.

Got it working with has_tag like you mentioned.

[s2If !current_user_can(access_s2member_level0)]
[_s2If has_tag(join-us)]text message here[/_s2If]
[/s2If]

Thanks for that.