About: prwashburn

No problem Mohamed.

I placed the code in my bp-custom.php file which is in the plugins directory.

<?php
add_action ("wp", "my_custom_capabilities", 1);
function my_custom_capabilities ()
    {
        if ( bp_is_groups_component() && 'group-name' == bp_current_item() && !current_user_can ("access_s2member_ccap_custom-name"))
            {
                header ("Location: " . S2MEMBER_MEMBERSHIP_OPTIONS_PAGE_URL);
                exit ();
               }
     }
?>

group-name is the name of the group obviously and custom-name is whatever you have used for the custom capability designation in s2member. You can put multiple functions in using elseif for each custom capability.

Hope that helps.
Phil

Thanks Raam. You guys are great.

I am running a WP 3.3.2 site with Buddypress 1.5.5 and s2member 120309. I am using the buddypress default theme.

I am wanting to fully limit access to each specific group based on a Custom Capabilities restriction. I have applied two different sets of code I have found through the forums and neither have worked. I have used them in both my theme function.php file and a bp-custom.php file. The group name is Masterpiece and the ccap is masterpiece.

Here are the two codes.

add_action ("template_redirect", "my_custom_capabilities", 1);
function my_custom_capabilities ()
    {
        if ( bp_is_groups_component() && 'masterpiece' == bp_current_item() && !current_user_can ("access_s2member_ccap_masterpiece"))
            {
                header ("Location: " . S2MEMBER_MEMBERSHIP_OPTIONS_PAGE_URL);
                exit ();
            }
    } 

The second way I tried is

<?php
add_action ("template_redirect", "my_custom_capabilities", 1);
function my_custom_capabilities ()
    {
        if (fnmatch ("/masterpiece*", $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]) && !current_user_can ("access_s2member_ccap_masterpiece"))
            {
                header ("Location: " . S2MEMBER_MEMBERSHIP_OPTIONS_PAGE_URL);
                exit ();
            }
    }
?>

Neither seems to redirect to the membership options page. Both allow the person to go through to the actual group. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Phil

Thanks Ruan.

I have looked at that approach but I am wanting to not link them to the actual member levels. I watched Jason Caldwell’s video tutorial on Custom Capabilities and he advocates using them to limit multiple levels, instead of the actual member levels. That would work more efficiently for my setup since I am going to have multiple products available and I want to reserve the member levels for people who want long term access to the products.

I am not looking for one-time access. I was wanting to replicate the Specific Post/Page Access Restriction to a group through the URI feature, so that a person could pay to join only one specific group. So you are saying there is no way to limit a URI except through membership levels?