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Ben,
If I am to create a new user role that has all of the vendor role capabilities…. will this new role behave in an identical fashion to “vendor” which using wc vendors?I am not sure if there are any places within the plugin that look specifically for the role VENDOR, and therefore the new role will not work in that case.
Thank you!
Everywhere in the plugin looks for the role name to be ‘vendor’ 🙂
We did add a filter recently, you can see the code for it here: https://github.com/wcvendors/wcvendors/commit/45211c4112ba45747462ed37769a098e11aea903 that would allow ‘other’ roles to be vendor roles, too.
Thanks, Ben. I now need to figure out what to do with this…
Is this filter added to the current WCV?
Do I then need to make something like this??:
add_filter( 'wcvendors_vendor_roles','custom_wcvendors_vendor_roles',10, 1); function custom_wcvendors_vendor_roles () { if (is_object($user)) { $is_vendor = is_array( $user->roles ) ? in_array( 'NEWROLE', $user->roles ) : false; foreach ($vendor_roles as $role ) { $is_vendor = is_array( $user->roles ) ? in_array( $role , $user->roles ) : false; } } else { $is_vendor = false; } }I hope I am at least on the right track… 😛
Not even close! 🙂
$vendor_roles = apply_filters( 'wcvendors_vendor_roles', array( 'vendor') );That shows you that it returns an array with only vendor in it
array( 'vendor'). So, your filter should return an array with the vendor role, and the other role. That’s it! 🙂Oh.. well you can leave it to me to make something way more complicated that it actually is. 😛
I’ll work on this again and check back with you. I cannot actually test this code and see if it works before implementing it on the site … so I’ll need to try and get it right. 😉
Thanks, Ben.
Ok…
How does this look?function custom_wcvendors_vendor_roles ($vendor_roles) { $new_vendor_role = array('newrole'); $vendor_roles = array_merge ($vendor_roles,$new_vendor_role); return $vendor_roles; } add_filter ('wcvendors_vendor_roles','custom_wcvendors_vendor_roles');I like this:
add_filter('wcvendors_vendor_roles', 'custom_wcvendors_vendor_roles'); function custom_wcvendors_vendor_roles(){ $roles = array('vendor', 'newrole'); return $roles; }Tested? No. But it *should* work. 🙂 This ASSumes (read the first three letters carefully ;)) that your new vendor role is ‘newrole’. Our vendor role is ‘vendor’ which we call ‘Vendor”. The ‘Pending Vendor’ role is ‘pending’. So if your ‘New Vendor Role’ is called ‘newrole’ then all is good.
Ahhh ok… I ASSumed that I needed to change the array completely and merge the two. 😉 I also thought I needed $vendor_roles instead of $roles.
Alright- well I gave it a shot. I won’t be naming the new role ‘newrole’, no, but I know I need to add the actual name there.
Thank you again, Ben. 🙂
It can be $whatever_you_want. 🙂 What is important is you
return $whatever_you_want;because what youreturnis$what_is_used🙂 Some devs use$args = whatever;thenreturn $args;because they like to return arguments, or some use$varwhatever doesnt matter, just so long as what you are returning from the function is what you want the filter to have. 🙂OK, I understand. I had thought it needed to line up with what Jamie had in the github filter you linked earlier.
Master Po, Young Grasshopper is learning. 😉Ben- quick question.
In the scenario we discussed above, with the following code:
add_filter('wcvendors_vendor_roles', 'custom_wcvendors_vendor_roles'); function custom_wcvendors_vendor_roles(){ $roles = array('vendor', 'newrole'); return $roles; }The member role name I will be assigning is called “Gold”, but the role is actually “wpfs_gold” when I edit it in the User Role Editor. So in the code above, would I insert “wpfs_gold” or the name “Gold”? I am assuming the former (wpfs_gold), but I just want to be sure, since testing this involves a transaction. 😉
If I can get this configured properly, I will be able to share a nice way for users of WC Vendors Pro to add a paid membership plan to obtain vendor access.
Thank you!
For the PHP portion of it, you refer to the role as the actual role name. If the role name is wpfs_gold that’s what you’d put in the code! Look forward to seeing what you’re working on! 🙂
Thanks, Ben. Hopefully this’ll work out and , of course, I’ll share what I’ve done in case it can help others.
So far most functions seem to be working fine- BUT…
The user who subscribes and is given the role wpfs_gold (which I synced with ‘vendor’ role using the code above) can see ALL vendors’ media in the media library. Not just their own photos.I was careful to duplicate the vendor capabilities and assign them to wpfs_gold using user role editor, and have double-checked to make sure they are identical.
Any ideas what may be causing them to be able to view all media?
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