Topic: Conditional Tag for Member in Group

Conditional Tag for Member in Group

jonnycha
Participant

@jonnycha

4 years, 1 month ago

Hi BP community,

I’m trying to find a conditional tag that checks whether the current user is a member of a specific group.

My intention is to use in conjunction with Menu Item Visibility Control plugin to conditionally display a menu item depending on whether a user is member of a particular group or not.

This is my first post here, so apologies if I’m in the wrong place.

Many thanks for your help.

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shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

4 years, 1 month ago

To get the group ids for a member, use groups_get_user_groups.
To get all the info about each group that a member belongs to, use bp_get_user_groups.
Both functions are in buddypress\bp-groups\bp-groups-functions.php

jonnycha
Participant

@jonnycha

4 years, 1 month ago

Thank you so much @shanebp.

I’m using:

in_array(4, groups_get_user_groups(get_current_user_id()))

For the menu item visibility. It works perfectly with an admin user but not a normal member. Any idea why?

shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

4 years, 1 month ago

If the correct group ids are being returned by groups_get_user_groups, then it sounds like a permission issue in the Menu Item Visibility plugin.

jonnycha
Participant

@jonnycha

4 years, 1 month ago

Thanks @shanepb, I’ll look into that

Nick
Participant

@nickchomey

3 years, 1 month ago

@shanebp

Not sure if I should create a new topic for this, but I’m curious as to which function I should be using – bp_get_user_groups or groups_get_user_groups. All I need are the IDs, but groups_get_user_groups doesn’t use wp_cache, and thus runs many redundant sql queries – this makes it seem like a completely redundant function. Or am I wrong?

kfdr44
Participant

@kfdr44

3 years ago

Is this good idea to use the tag to find the relevant post and ideas? I want to try for my blog.

kennynewbie
Participant

@kennynewbie

3 years ago

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