Hi, I’m following up on my previous post about how I wanted to restrict commenting on the activity page by restricted roles. I was wondering if it’s possible to instead have a “can comment” option where comments only show up for a paid role member (admin included).

I included the original code below:

/**
 * Check weather user is restricted from commenting.
 *
 * @param int $user_id User id.
 *
 * @return bool
 */
function buddydev_is_restricted_commenter( $user_id ) {

	// Never restrict super admin from commenting or no user found.
	if ( is_super_admin( $user_id ) ) {
		return false;
	}

	$user = get_user_by( 'id', $user_id );

	// Roles those will be restricted.
	$restricted_roles = array( 'contributor', 'subscriber' );

	// Restrict only if the user has restricted roles.
	if ( $user && array_intersect( $user->roles, $restricted_roles ) ) {
		return true;
	}

	return false;
}

/**
 * Check user can comment or not.
 *
 * @param bool $can Bool.
 *
 * @return bool
 */
function buddydev_user_can_comment( $can ) {
	$activity = new BP_Activity_Activity( bp_get_activity_id() );

	$user_id = get_current_user_id();

	// Do not restrict for its own activity.
	if ( $activity->user_id == $user_id ) {
		return $can;
	}

	if ( buddydev_is_restricted_commenter( $user_id ) ) {
		$can = false;
	}

	return $can;
}
add_filter( 'bp_activity_can_comment', 'buddydev_user_can_comment' );
add_filter( 'bp_activity_can_comment_reply', 'buddydev_user_can_comment' );

To sum up, is it possible to reverse from restricted to allowing commenting for a paid role?

Is this possible?

Thanks!