get user id’s of the role and then exclude those id’s. google how to exclude id’s from buddypress members loop. it’s been posted here a few times
The Code from “SOLVED: Limit Members Loop by Profile Fields” seem easy to implement. I added this to my function.php
// to exclude only defined roles in the Buddypress Members LOOP
function exclude_by_role($exclude_roles) {
$memberArray = array();
if (bp_has_members()) :
while (bp_members()) : bp_the_member();
$user = new WP_User( bp_get_member_user_id() );
$user_role = $user->roles[0];
foreach ($exclude_roles as $exclude_role) {
if ($exclude_role==$user_role) {
array_push($memberArray, $user->ID);
break;
}
}
endwhile;
endif;
$theExcludeString=implode(",",$memberArray);
return $theExcludeString;
}
I then added this to my member-loop.php
<? $excluded_roles = array ('administrator', 'author', 'subscriber'); // this can be any roles you have set up
if (bp_has_members( 'exclude=' . exclude_by_role($excluded_roles) . '&' . bp_ajax_querystring( 'members' ) ) ) : ?>
Unfortunately, it still is not excluding any of the specified roles. I took a look at the second example, but not sure where to put the code. Any suggestions?
Can’t you just pass the ids of the roles you want to bp_has_members() using include?
You could get the user ids you need using get_users() then do an array_merge()
Take a look at:
Members Loop
I am still having this problem and REALLY need a solution. I’m not a developer so ca anyone walk me through what I need to do?
so far I have added this to my functions.php
// to exclude only defined roles in the Buddypress Members LOOP
function exclude_by_role($exclude_roles) {
$memberArray = array();
if (bp_has_members()) :
while (bp_members()) : bp_the_member();
$user = new WP_User( bp_get_member_user_id() );
$user_role = $user->roles[0];
foreach ($exclude_roles as $exclude_role) {
if ($exclude_role==$user_role) {
array_push($memberArray, $user->ID);
break;
}
}
endwhile;
endif;
$theExcludeString=implode(",",$memberArray);
return $theExcludeString;
}
Then added this to my member-loop.php
$excluded_roles = array ('administrator', 'author', 'subscriber'); // this can be any roles you have set up
if (bp_has_members( 'exclude=' . exclude_by_role($excluded_roles) . '&' . bp_ajax_querystring( 'members' ) ) ) :
Unfortunately, no luck. It is not excluding any of the three roles noted above.
Any one have any suggestions?
Hi @rianhall,
add this code to functions.php :
https://gist.github.com/dzmounir/8285459
No need to edit any template files. Just change
$excluded_roles = array( 'administrator', 'subscriber' );
by puting the role ids to hide.
Thanks for the code and instructions. Unfortunately, it is still not working. Here is exactly what I did:
1. Copied the code.
2. Removed the code I had in the functions.php file and pasted the new code in it.
3. Reverted my member-loop.php file to it’s original state, free from any customizations.
4. Logged into my site
5. Went to the members list.
Result:
I am still seeing the Administrator and Subscriber users.
Any other ideas or am I doing something wrong?
This is really odd. I must have had something cached, because it it working now. Hmmmm.
I guess I’ll keep an eye on it, but it does seem to be working. Thanks a million!!!
excluding specific ids isn’t necessarily helpful if you have a regularly changing membership…
FWIW – i am not a programmer… i am good at patching together workarounds tho 🙂
somewhere along the way i found this approach to ONLY displaying my level3 members:
<?php while ( bp_members() ) : bp_the_member(); ?>
<?php
$wp_user = new WP_User( bp_get_member_user_id() );
if( $wp_user->roles[0] == 's2member_level3' ): ?>
which seems to do the trick – this is in members-loop.php
at the top of that file i have
<?php if ( bp_has_members( 'type=alphabetical' ) ) : ?>
it used to be bp_ajax_querystring() which seemed to continually thwart my efforts.
Now it nicely displays my teachers in alpha order with no headache… granted, it’s by first name, which i will eventually figure out how to fix.
Obviously i’m using s2member with buddypress, but i tried it using basic wordpress roles and it worked as well.
so far so good, at least…
@somethingelse doing if ( $wp_user->roles[0] == 's2member_level3' ) inside the loop is great but you might find your pagination doesn’t take your condition into account. For that you’ll need to hook into the bp_ajax_querystring filter
See the technique in action on the BuddyDev website:
Exclude Users from Members directory on a BuddyPress based social network
@Henry – thanks for that link…
but it, again, seems to just exclude members by ID… our membership changes regularly… i don’t want to have to re-code my members-loop every time a member leaves or joins… we’re gonna be into id’s in the 1000’s soon!
so… i backed up and tried @megainfo’s approach.
that seems to EXCLUDE just fine… so far…
not sure why i didn’t try that in the first place.
now if i could just get rid of the darn “active users” issue…
@somethingelse great to see you got it working for you.
our membership changes regularly… i don’t want to have to re-code my members-loop every time a member leaves or joins
Why must the exclude ID list be fixed?
I wouldn’t suggest doing something like $excluded_users = '1,2,3';
Rather, your list of IDs to exclude should be dynamic e.g.
$excluded_users = $ids;
where $ids is a list of your users with role s2member_level3 – which is continually updated. To get $ids you’d just need to query for the s2member_level3 role.
@henrywright – that’s a brilliant idea.
i will try it… operative word being “try” … cuz i am far from being a programmer. i’m just a lucky guesser most of the time, and good at recognizing patterns.
thanks for the tip!
Hi @megainfo I try your code and its working great on mine.
But can we make it dynamic??
Because I setup two members directory and I wanted to show, userrole1 to first directory page and userrole2 for the second page.
Aprreciate help
