[Resolved] Disable element for specific author

[Chris]

Hi,

Unfortunately the display settings won’t allow me to disable a custom element for a specific author. Could you please give me a workaround snippet that basically says:

If author is “ID number”, disable custom element “ID number, ID number, ID, number”

Thanks!!

[Leo]

Hi Chris,

Which element are you trying to disable?

Let me know 🙂

[Chris]

A custom one I created. A hook, a block-hook etc.

[Leo]

I believe this filter is what you are looking for:
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/generate_element_display/

Let me know 🙂

[Chris]

So I would use the first one like this:

add_filter( 'generate_element_display', function( $display, $element_id ) {
    if ( 100 === $element_id && is_author( 'Tom' ) ) {
        $display = false;
    }

    return $display;
}, 10, 2 );

Where I wouldn’t want to display element ID 100 for every post with the author Tom?

Could we change it to author ID instead of name?

This doesn’t work for me.

[Leo]

Where I wouldn’t want to display element ID 100 for every post with the author Tom?

That is correct – Element ID 100 won’t display when the author is Tom.

Could we change it to author ID instead of name?

This should help: https://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#An_Author_Page

[Chris]

Unfortunately this doesn’t work for me.

Just to be sure, the element ID is what is displayed in the edit URL as “post=100”, correct?

[Leo]

That’s correct.

Can you share your full code here and link me to the page in question?

[Chris]

add_filter( 'generate_element_display', function( $display, $element_id ) {
    if ( 1351 === $element_id && is_author( '2' ) ) {
        $display = false;
    }

    return $display;
}, 10, 2 );

I can’t link the page, but it’s the most recent version for plugin and theme.

[Leo]

It’s not related to the theme/plugin versions.

Issues like these are tough to help without seeing the site live.

Can you create a staging site and provide the backend access?

Thanks!

[Chris]

I tried it with multiple installs now. The snippet doesn’t work in any of them.

[Leo]

Maybe we are not using the right conditional tag.

Can you create a staging site and provide the backend access?

[Chris]

Not really, but I can show you a snippet that works just fine:

add_filter( 'option_generate_blog_settings', 'custom_author_page_settings' );
function custom_author_page_settings( $options ) {
    $author = get_the_author_meta( 'ID' );

    if ( 2 === $author ) {
	$options['author'] = false;
	$options['single_author'] = false;
    }
  
    return $options;
}

So I don’t understand why the other one won’t work. Did you test the code yourself? With the new Block/Hook Elements for author meta for example?

[David]

Hi there,

where is this element being displayed?

The is_author tag is used to check if you’re on an author archive page.

Whereas your second working code is checking the author meta which will apply to a single post.

If you require the latter – try this:

add_filter( 'generate_element_display', function( $display, $element_id ) {
    $author = get_post_field( 'post_author', get_the_ID() );
    if ( 1351 === $element_id && '2' === $author ) {
        $display = false;
    }

    return $display;
}, 10, 2 );

[Chris]

The element is displayed on a post. Author box or post meta for example, or a hook in wp_head etc.

I want to disable an element on posts by a specific author.

Unfortunately the snippet you provided does not work either.

[Author]

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