Display Metaboxes with conditionnal capability

Hello,

If you just want to hide them an easy way would be through CSS.

You can add a function like this:

function add_user_role_body_class( $userClass ) {
    global $current_user;
    foreach( $current_user->roles as $userRole )
        $userClass .= ' user-role-' . $userRole;
    return trim( $userClass);
}
add_filter( 'admin_body_class', 'add_user_role_body_class' );

This will add the ex ‘user-role-administrator’ class to your admin body tag.

Then you can add the appropriate CSS to hide anything you like example:

body.user-role-administrator #myDiv {
   visibility:hidden !important;
   position:absolute !important;
}

About the CSS:

With display: none, the form fields won’t be submitted, so instead you can use visibility:hidden .

You could also go a bit more advanced by totally removing them with jQuery etc but that depends on what those metaboxes are used for etc if they are validated etc etc.

Best regards,
Konstantinos

• This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by Konstantinos Xenos.

Hello @ximun144

Yes, this is possible to display mextaboxes depending on the author capabilities or role.

Please take a look at this plugin for concept…

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/user-specific-content/

Hope this will help.

Thanks.