[Resolved] Users to see only their post in cpt

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[MattI4840]

Tell us what you are trying to do?

I have a subscription site where users register and are taken directly to a post form to set up a profile which is a cpt. Once they save the profile, they are taken to their profile page, which at this point needs to only be visible to the author. Unfortunately I haven't found any way to ensure this is the case.

I can of course use Access to block logged in users from editing/publishing etc. (although that also does not seem to be working correctly). But there is no option to view or read own only. Currently if a user logs in and types in a URL for another profile while logged in they can see the profile. How can this be achieved?

Also important to note that when I started troubleshooting and attempted to write a custom function to handle this I noticed that for some reason the user who is the author was not being attributed as the author, the admin account was. So I wrote a function to insert the logged in user as the author.

Side note, it would be good to have the author listed in the cpt post grid menu on the back-end. That would have sped up the troubleshooting a lot.

Is there any documentation that you are following?

I've gone over the Access documentation and many support threads to figure this out. As well wordpress docs, stackoverflow threads etc.

[MattI4840]

Update: I was able to get the function working to limit access as described above, and I found the settings to add the author field to the cpt list and update them.

[MattI4840]

I thought I had this fixed, however it appears that even when using the below function to set the author to the current author id, it is returning a 1 when I test. The odd thing is that the author field on the admin side shows the correct name. Here is the code I'm using:

To set the author on submit:

function my_save_data_action2 ($post_id, $form_data) {
if ($form_data['id']==57 || $form_data['id']==50) {
$post= array(
'ID' => $post_id,
'post_author' => get_current_user_id(),
);

wp_update_post( $post );
}
}

add_action('cred_submit_complete', 'my_save_data_action2',10,2);

To redirect if the current user and author don't match:

function redirect_private_draft_portfolios() {

global $post;
$author_id = $post->post_author;

$current_user_id = get_current_user_id();

//variable testing
$text = 'userID: ' . $current_user_id . ' authID: ' . $author_id;
$var_str = var_export($text, true);
$var = "<?php\n\n\$text = $var_str;\n\n?>";
file_put_contents('testing.php', $var);

if($post_type == 'athlete-profile' && !current_user_can('manage_options')) {

if( $current_user_id != $author_id ) {
wp_redirect( home_url() );
exit();
}

}

}
add_action('template_redirect', 'redirect_private_draft_portfolios');

I'm sure I'm missing something, any help you can provide would be very appreciated.

[MattI4840]

It looks like the code is working correctly, the issue was that the post author that was being retrieved/printed was for the homepage (where I was testing from) and not the post that I was requesting. Apologies for the ridiculous conversation with myself here.