Reply To: Only users who created a post can edit that post

• Stormcrow

• January 16, 2014 at 7:50 pm

Hi @roger,

I encountered exactly the same issue, and i’ve written a logic which does the following:

-gets the current logged in user id
-in a loop, get the id’s of all posts by that user
-checks whether this specific post id is created / allowed to be edited by that user
-if allowed, nothing happens, and edit form is loaded /
-if not allowed, exit() and redirect the user

here’s my code, please place it in the page in which your frontend form resides, after your “get_header()” or “wp_head()” (can’t run the loop before that):

$user_ID = get_current_user_id();

$args = array(
	'post_type' => 'your_post_type',
	'posts_per_page' => -1,
	'post_status' => 'any',
	'author' => $user_ID
);

// The Query
$the_query = new WP_Query($args);

// The Loop
if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
	$posts_by_user = array();
	while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
		$the_query->the_post();
		$posts_by_user[] = get_the_ID();
	}
} else {
	//echo 'no posts found';
}

/* Restore original Post Data */
wp_reset_postdata(); 

// Check and redirect if needed
if (in_array($book_ID, $posts_by_user)) {
	//echo "Post ID found in array";
} else {
	$location = get_home_url();
	$status = '302';
	wp_redirect( $location, $status );
	exit;
}

The code is checked and working, let me know if i can help in any other way.