List of allowed user roles on current page

Hi Carlo,

Members doesn’t allow to redirect unauthorized users from protected page, but you can use this code snippet at the end of your theme’s functions.php file to do that:

add_action( 'template_redirect', function() {
  // Redirect users from specific page 
  // when user doesn't have particular role 
  $user = wp_get_current_user();
  if ( is_page(array('contact', 'about')) && ( ! is_user_logged_in() || ( ! empty($user) && in_array( 'author', (array) $user->roles ) ) ) ) {
    $redirect = 'https://your-domain.com/wp-login.php'; // Change this to the correct URL
    wp_redirect( $redirect );
    exit;
  }
} );

All you need to do is change pages list in 'contact', 'about' array, and role in author string.

Hopefully, that helps.

Hi,

and thanks for your answer.

Actually I am trying to understand if there’s any function that returns the list of authorized roles for the current page so that I can check if the current user role is in the array of authorized roles for the page.

Another way around that would be to add a custom capability and then check for that capability, but I still don’t understand if it’s possible to add custom capabilities in Members.

Thanks !

Hi @swaip

You can use members_get_post_roles that gets post ID as an argument and returns an array of the roles for a given post

Hopefully, that helps.

THANKS!
That was exactly the function I was searching for. I then made an in_array check for the user role inside the allowed roles and a wp_redirect if not allowed.
Works like a charm, I don’t understand though why this is not the default behaviour of the plugin.

Thanks again !