Limit myCred to a particular role and award that user points for registration

I came across this “which is the post I saw a while back”.. limit to role/capabilities.

If I want to limit it to a publisher role, would I replace ‘editors’ with publisher assuming the publisher has the ability to ‘delete_others_pages’?

add_filter( ‘mycred_add’, ‘restrict_points_for_non_editors’, 10, 3 );
function restrict_points_for_non_editors( $reply, $request, $mycred )
{
// Role check though capabilities
if ( ! user_can( $request[‘user_id’], ‘delete_others_pages’ ) ) return false;
return $reply;
}

And how would I go about allowing points to be awarded once that the user of that particular role has registered and been approved?

Thank you

Just found how to award points for registration under “Hooks”. Great!

How could I amend the restrict points code for a “publisher” user role?

Hi.

The code you mentioned is based on the default WordPress roles and capabilities.

If you have a custom role, and want the same feature, you you would need to change the capability check to something your “Publishers” and above have but not everyone else.

In this example, delete_others_pages is a capability that only Editors and Administrators have by default. If you are customizing your roles and capabilities, you could always create a custom capability that only Publishers and Admins have and use that in the code.

P.S. The word “editors” in the function name has absolutely no effect your website. It is just a name and it only needs to be unique. So restrict_points_for_non_editors or restrict_points_for_non_publishers makes no difference. Use a name that explains what the function does.

P.P.S Points for registrations fires when a user is created in your database. This means that users who signup and get this role get points and users who are created by you in the admin area with this role will also get points.

Note that the above code you entered will decline ALL points for non editors, not just registrations.

Thanks for the detailed explanation, much appreciated! It looks like it the code will work perfectly as is.