Making a template visible only to logged in users

[Haime Croeze]

Hi,

Allow me to be the first to ask a question here.

I have a plugin (WP Idea Stream) which is great and works with BuddyBoss. The only thing is I want no public access to the ideas, only for logged in users.

I implemented a copy of page.php (and called it ideastream.php) as per the developer instructions and now I want to make the template logged-in only accessible. I have been struggeling with this a couple of days now (and posted to the developer as well as to wordpress forum in order to find a solution.

I have this code (that does not work) and would like to know if someone in the BuddyBoss community has a working code?

<?php
/**
 * Template Name: Idea Stream
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage BuddyBoss
 * @since BuddyBoss 3.0
 */
get_header(); ?>

	<div id="primary" class="site-content">
	
		<div id="content" role="main">

<?php if (!is_user_logged_in()) {
   echo 'Welcome, registered user!';
} else {
			while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); {
				get_template_part( 'content', 'page' );
				comments_template( '', true ); }
			endwhile; // end of the loop.
	    }			
endif; //end of if-loop. ?>

		</div><!-- #content -->
		
	</div><!-- #primary -->

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Thnaks a lot in advance!

[Michael Eisenwasser]

You’re using !is_user_logged_in.

The ! means “not”. So you’re saying, if IS NOT user logged in…

Remove that exclamation mark, and then it will be saying, if IS user logged in, which is what I believe you want.

[Haime Croeze]

@michael the wording is not correct. I do mean to have !is_user_logged_in 🙂

I do mean something like this:

<?php if (!is_user_logged_in()) {
   echo 'no access';
}

The problem is that the template code above generates a blank screen, both for not-logged-in as well as for logged-in 🙁

regards!

[Paul]

@haime Do this have to be done by template? Can you not achieve with a private URL and a logged-in only menu link?

[Haime Croeze]

@style960 I did think about that, but I want to have real privacy, also from robots (and not only the ones that respect robots.txt). Unfortunately WP Idea Stream uses rewrite based on page-template and not a real page (e.g. with a shortcode.)

[Bowe]

I think you could use a conditional to check if the page is an “idea steam”. I quickly took a look at the code and found a bunch of conditionals (Matthieu is an excellent developer so that was to be expected).

Try something like this in your functions.php or bp-custom.php file

//Keep the ideastream private
function private_idea_stream()
{

	if( is_ideastream() && ! is_user_logged_in() )
		bp_core_redirect( $bp->root_domain .'/' );
}
add_action( 'bp_init', 'private_idea_stream' );

I’m not sure if this is the right conditional to use but give it a try 🙂