authors shall only see their own posts (where they are co-author)

  • Hey guys,

    first of all thanks for the good work! ??

    I would like to modify the wordpress backend in a way, so that users of a certain role can only see their own posts (and documents for that matter; I am using WP document revisions for that). There are not really any plugins for that (at least ones that are still maintained), however I found this piece of code that I put into my functions.php:

    function mypo_parse_query_useronly( $wp_query ) {
    if ( strpos( $_SERVER[ 'REQUEST_URI' ], '/wp-admin/edit.php' ) !== false ) {
        if ( !current_user_can( 'level_10' ) ) {
            global $current_user;
            $wp_query->set( 'author', $current_user->id );
        }
    }
}

add_filter('parse_query', 'mypo_parse_query_useronly' );

    However, this piece of code doesn’t seem to work with coauthors plus: even though a certain user with the role “Editor” is coauthor of a post/document, he can not see the post. Since I am (unfortunately) a php/wordpress noob, I can’t figure it out…

    I would be very happy for any suggestions,

    thanks for the Help,

    Stickhead

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/co-authors-plus/

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  • Plugin Contributor Daniel Bachhuber

    (@danielbachhuber)

    Can you instead try this?

    $wp_query->set( 'author_name', $current_user->user_nicename );

    Hey,

    I’ve got the same problem, I wanted the author to only see and edit their own posts and own media. I find this code that you can place at the beginning of your functions.php

    //restrict authors to only being able to view media that they've uploaded
	function ik_eyes_only( $wp_query ) {
		//are we looking at the Media Library or the Posts list?
		if ( strpos( $_SERVER[ 'REQUEST_URI' ], '/wp-admin/upload.php' ) !== false
		|| strpos( $_SERVER[ 'REQUEST_URI' ], '/wp-admin/edit.php' ) !== false ) {
			//user level 5 converts to Editor
			if ( !current_user_can( 'level_5' ) ) {
				//restrict the query to current user
				global $current_user;
				$wp_query->set( 'author', $current_user->id );
			}
		}
	}
	//filter media library & posts list for authors
	add_filter('parse_query', 'ik_eyes_only' );

    I hope it will help!

    Thread Starter Stickhead

    (@stickhead)

    Hey, I havent had the chance yet to check it out, but will do as soon as I have time! Anyway, thanks for the code!

    Cheers, Stefan

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