Using role based page templates?

  • Resolved Tanveer

    (@tanver)


    13 years, 11 months ago

    Hi friends,
    I am working on a project where I need to restrict the contents [columns and no. of words to be displayed] based upon the role of the user, who is currently trying to access the contents.
    I am thinking of using User Based Page Templates like we do for page-catid.php etc but don’t know whether it is possible or not? I would appreciate any help/support from this wonderful community.
    TIA

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  • I believe that you could have a ‘parent’ template include the proper ‘child’ template based on the current user’s capability. Something like this (UNTESTED):

    if (current_user_can('administrator')) {
   include TEMPLATEPATH . '/admin-template.php';
} elseif (current_user_can('editor')) {
   include TEMPLATEPATH . '/editor-template.php';
} else {
   include TEMPLATEPATH . '/norole-template.php';
}
    Thread Starter Tanveer

    (@tanver)

    Thanks for your support. ??
    It did the job, have to replace TEMPLATEPATH with STYLESHEETPATH for the templates to be based in the child theme folder.

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