Redirect user if not enrolled to course

  • Resolved wallifantastic

    (@wallifantastic)


    2 weeks, 4 days ago

    By default, all courses are publicly accessible and indexable. This is perfect when selling courses, but not ideal if you want to create internal courses for your own employees. So, is there an option to redirect not enrolled users to the home page or to show 404 page, when they try to access course/lesson pages? I know we can check “Don’t allow self-enrollment”, but the course and its lessons still remain publicly visible.

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  • We don’t have a feature built-in for something like this, but if you wanted to have some courses publicly visible and some that are private, you may want to consider setting up a separate site for the private courses and enabling the Access Permissions settings for that site:

    https://senseilms.com/documentation/settings/#access-permissions

    Thread Starter wallifantastic

    (@wallifantastic)

    Sorry I’m new to Sensei. I did some research and found the conditional block. I used this as a starting point for the following code snippet. I additionally included the option Self Enrollment not allowed in this example. You can place it in the functions.php of the child theme (either as a method or as a normal function). Maybe this will be helpful for others too.

    /**
    * Show 404 if user is not enrolled in the course and if self enrollment to the course is not allowed
    */

    class Restricted_Course_Access {

    /**
    * Restricted_Course_Access constructor
    */

    public function __construct() {
    add_action( 'template_redirect', [ $this, 'restrict_access' ] );
    }

    public function restrict_access() {
    $course_id = null;

    if ( 'course' === get_post_type() ) {
    $course_id = get_the_ID();
    } elseif ( 'lesson' === get_post_type() ) {
    $course_id = Sensei()->lesson->get_course_id( get_the_ID() );
    }

    // If no course ID is available, leave
    if ( ! $course_id ) {
    return;
    }

    // Check if the user is enrolled
    $is_enrolled = Sensei()->course::is_user_enrolled( $course_id );

    // If the user is not enrolled and the option Self Enrollment not allowed is selected, display 404 page
    if ( ! $is_enrolled && get_post_meta( $course_id, '_sensei_self_enrollment_not_allowed', true ) == '1' ) {
    global $wp_query;
    $wp_query->set_404();
    status_header(404);
    nocache_headers();
    include( get_query_template( '404' ) );
    exit;
    }
    }
    }

    // Instantiate class to enable access control
    new Restricted_Course_Access();
    Plugin Support Jay

    (@bluejay77)

    Hi @wallifantastic,

    Another way to do this without using custom code snippet is using WordPress’s default settings for password-protected post:

    This will turn the course into a “protected post” and display password field instead:

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