Hide Content Based On User Role with Shortcode

If you're using a membership plugin to manage your roles, you will probably already have the necessary shortcode(s) to hide/show content based on the user's role or capability. However, if you are using roles and capabilities WITHOUT using a full blown membership plugin, you can easily create your own shortcodes.

To create a shortcode that hides the content you place between the opening and closing tags of your shortcode, add the following to you theme function.php or, better yet, to a simple custom plugin...

// add private content via shortcode
function private_content($atts, $content = null) {
if (current_user_can('my_role')) //replace my_role with the name of the role you want to see content
return do_shortcode('
' . $content . '
');
return '';
}

add_shortcode('my_private_content', 'private_content');

Notes:

• You can use either a role or a capability that WP creates or you created
• If using roles, all roles above the one you set will also see the content
• This code is optimized for Formidable Pro by including the do_shortcode() function so you can add FP shortcodes to the hidden content
• The content is wrapped in a class so you can style the hidden content if you want