Ok no worries. Just wondered if it’s possible but not necessary. Thanks for all of your help!

Hi, thanks. Just to confirm, where does this code go? In functions or?

Disregard the above post! I forgot to delete the previous code from my functions.php so that is what caused the critical error. I removed from functions.php and reinserted the new code to bp-custom.php and tested again. It’s now working! subscribers cannot comment unless it is their own post!
Thank you so much Ravi!

Hi, thanks for the response!
I was a bit confused on the 2 responses you gave. I put the following code in functions and it’s not working. Is it incorrect? Am I supposed to place it elsewhere?

/**
* 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.
if ( is_super_admin( $user_id ) ) {
return false;
}

return // Replace the capability with role’s capability you want to restrict
current_user_can( ‘publish_posts’ );
}

/**
* 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’ );

Thanks again!

• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by Amanda.