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Hi I’m trying to get the member type of the post author using php and then create a shortcode to tell the post to hide particular information if the post author, in the site overall, is a certain member type. Not the use, the post author.

So the user is logged in
they get to a directory listing that has an author who is a member type.
I want to hide a block of copy jsut using a shortcode.

I tried this, but it’s hiding the information for all post types.

/**
 * Hide content from Casting Buyers

function hide_if_casting_buyer_function( $atts, $content = null ) {
// fetch post author id
$user_id  = get_the_author_meta('ID');
// Get the member type of user the author.
$member_type = bp_get_member_type( $user_id );
// if casting_buyer hide from front end.
if ( $member_type == 'casting_buyer_type' ) 
	{return '<span style="display:none">' . $content . '</span>';}
}
add_shortcode('hide_if_casting_buyer', 'hide_if_casting_buyer_function'); */

I’m already hiding the box from everybody who is not logged in. using css
in this case, I want to hide the info for any author who is casting_buyer_type.

I tried the plugins from buddydev, but their shortcodes hide if the user is a particular member type. I want to hide if the post author of the post is a particular member type.