Access for all custom capabilities

Just a quick question:

I’m loving custom capabilities. Thing is, I’d like to have lots (possibly hundreds) of custom capabilities. The following shortcode of course says, “if a user can access the MOVIES custom capability”: [_s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_ccap_movies)]

But is it possible to set the shortcode to say “if a user has access to ANY custom capabilities”? That is, if *any* custom capability has been set for a user, specific content will become visible?

Many thanks!

Geoff

Hi Geoff,

Unfortunately isn’t such a function, however there are two ways you could implement such functionality.

The first, and far more complicated method, would be to maintain an array of all the custom capabilities you create and then loop through each custom capability check if the user has access to it. If they have access to any of them, then the conditional passes.

The problem with that method is that you’d need to manually update that array in your code every time you use a new Custom Capability.

The easier method would be to simply assign *everyone* a custom capability. You could create a dummy custom capability that gets used for no other purpose other than to check if they have a custom capability.