Show messages to certain users by userid

Or this way:

[hide for=”userid:!42″]

how to add multiple ids’ to this shortcode…the syntax?

Thanks
Sanjay

Hi Sanjay! Thanks for yor interest in the plugin.

The correct way to accomplish what you’re intending to do is by applying ay of the following shortcodes:

[hide for="userid:!42, userid:!78, userid:!83, userid:!94"]{Your content here}[/hide]
[hide for="all" exclude="userid:42, userid:78, userid:83, userid:94"]{Your content here}[/hide]

Hope this helps.

Hi,
ok, noted..will give it a shot and will update this thread! Thanks very much!
Regards,
Sanjay

Hi Andres,
Problems continue. I am new to wordpress, php, etc..need more help.

I want a message to appear in the footer for userid 826.

[hide for="userid:!826"]Message for user No 826[/hide]

I put this in the html file directly and it shows the whole thing, without processing it.

What I am doing wrong? Can I even call it in footer.php and header.php of my wordpress theme?

Should I put it in php tags? What is the exact code which I need to put in footer.php to be able to do this…?

Thanks
Sanjay

Hi Sanjay,

The correct way to do that inside a template file is wrapping the shortcode with PHP tags and using the do_shortcode() function. It should look like this:

<?php do_shortcode( '[hide for="userid:!826"]Message for user No 826[/hide]' ); ?>

However, if you deactivate the plugin at some point, that will only render the shortcode text, so a more comprehensive solution should check if the plugin is active. That case should look like this:

<?php
if ( class_exists( 'Hide_This' ) ) :
    do_shortcode( '[hide for="userid:!826"]Message for user No 826[/hide]' );
endif;
?>

Please let me know if that works for you.

Good luck!

Hi Andres,
Some progress. It is not printing out the raw text now, but it is not showing the text for user 826.

Basically, it is hiding for all users.

Since this is called in the footer-how does it know if the user is logged in, and what is the userid of the user? Maybe we are missing something there?

the site btw is solos24.com, it is a dating site for Chile.

thanks
sanjay

Hi Sanjay,

My bad, sorry. You need to have echo before the do_shortcode() function. Here’s the code that should work:

<?php
if ( class_exists( 'Hide_This' ) ) :
    echo do_shortcode( '[hide for="userid:!826"]Message for user No 826[/hide]' );
endif;
?>

Please let me know how it goes.

Best,

Andrés.

Ok Andres, noted..will give it a shot. Thanks
Sanjay

Hi Andres,
Ok, it works for one user…for multiple users, the syntax which works is this one:

[hide for="all" exclude="userid:42, userid:78, userid:83, userid:94"]{Your content here}[/hide]

Thanks much!
Sanjay

Great to see you got it to work ??

Also, keep in mind that you can exclude and include roles and capabilities too, in case the users you’re pointing to have the same privileges. That may help you save some code.

Best,

Andrés.

Ok Andres, noted..thanks.

Buenos dias Andres,

Tengo unos calendarios en mi web que según que usuario inicie sesión quiero que le aparezca el calendario correspondiente y que no le aparezca el resto de calendarios.
Es esto posible con Hide this?Como tendría que hacerlo?

muchas Gracias