Adding custom capability to existing members

Hello Support,

If I want to add a custom capability to certain members (regardless of the membership level) how do I do that.

I have about 200 members (level 0, 1 and 2) that I need to give special access to a certain page as well as the links within that page.

I have seen the tutorials that show how to create the shortcode, form or buttons for custom caps but how do I assign them to certain members? Please keep in mind I don’t what the form available to all member to register to, but rather I want to assign the cc individually.

Here is my form, just not sure how to assign it the the particular users:

[s2Member-Pro-PayPal-Form register="1" level="0" ccaps="private" desc="Private Content" custom="www.domain.com" tp="0" tt="D"] 

Thanks
Hamid

• This topic was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by  Hamid.

Hello Hamid,

In that case what you would do is edit the user’s ccaps, not add them through a shortcode (since you can’t separate content by member).

So you would go under WP Dashboard -> Users -> All Users -> [Username] and you would add that ccap to the user under the s2Member section of the user’s info.

Hope this helps. :)

Thanks Eduan,

OK I see that now. So I would have to do it for each user via the dashboard.

Is there a way to do it with a SQL statement? Something like “update cc with private where user id=1, 2, 3”.

Sorry about the syntax, I don’t know SQL very well but couldn’t I run a query that updates all the userids that I would like to give the “private” custom capability to?

You might be interested in doing this through PHP, you can check this article for that:
Knowledge Base » Changing Roles/Capabilities via PHP

Hope this helps. :)

Hi Hamid.

I have about 200 members (level 0, 1 and 2) that I need to give special access to a certain page as well as the links within that page.

The import tool can help you with this, to update the existing users so you give them the new access. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Import/Export -› User/Member Importation[/hilite]

I hope it helps. :)