meta boxes are hidden

• lachender_engel

• August 29, 2014 at 9:37 pm

Hello, together.

I’m new with ACF and need your help with following issue:

I’ve created a custom post type with my own meta boxes. With ACF I add two special boxes like geo locator and image upload. Everything works fine until my user has the role administrator.

The reason is a short code which hides all custom posts from other users than the one who is logged in, in the overview list.

The code is:

function posts_for_current_author($query) {
	global $user_level;

	if($query->is_admin && $user_level < 5) {
		global $user_ID;
		$query->set('author',  $user_ID);
		unset($user_ID);
	}
	unset($user_level);

	return $query;
}

If I delete the line “$query->set(‘author’, $user_ID);” I see all ACF meta boxes on the edit page, but also all entries from all users in the list.

Do someone has any idea how I can get both working together?

Thanks a lot for your help in advance!

• VoiD2008

• August 30, 2014 at 3:47 am

add_filter( 'posts_where', 'creator_posts' );
function creator_posts( $where ){
    global $wpdb, $pagenow, $current_user;
    if ( is_admin() && $pagenow=='edit.php' && $current_user->user_login != 'admin') {
       $where .= "AND (".$wpdb->posts.".post_author = '".$current_user->ID."' )";
    }
    return $where;
}

you can also add any other statements to IF block for example

• lachender_engel

• August 30, 2014 at 5:07 am

VoiD2008, you made my day!
I changed the if statement a little bit to

if ( (is_admin() && $pagenow=='edit.php') && !current_user_can( 'update_core' )) {

So I don’t have to know the name of the user. Only if the user has a very high privileg (like update_core) I will show him/her the entire list.

Thanks again for this quick and very good answer!

• VoiD2008

• August 30, 2014 at 6:34 am

Yep your statement better =) You are welcome =)