Hi Vasily,

How can you tell if the user is a paying member or not? Is that info stored in a profile field, in a role, or otherwise?

If you store that information in a profile field with value, say, ‘paid’, you can build a directory of paying members with this shortcode:

[bps_directory field_47='paid']

(replace 47 with the actual ID of your profile field)

Then you can select that directory as the results page of your search form, and you’ll get the search restricted to paying members.

You are right, that won’t work!

You can use the member type instead. Build a directory of paying members with this shortcode:

[bps_directory member_type='paid']

(replace paid with the actual member type you give to paying members)

Then you can select that directory as the results page of your search form, and you’ll get the search restricted to paying members.

Please let me know if this works for you!

If you are already using member types for another purpose, I wouldn’t use them to also store the payment status.

I’d go back to using a profile field, adding a plugin to prevent user modifications to that field. If you prefer, you could also use this quick and dirty code in bp-custom.php:

add_action ('bp_members_admin_load', 'prevent_profile_field_update');
add_action ('wp', 'prevent_profile_field_update');
function prevent_profile_field_update ()
{
	if (!bp_current_user_can ('bp_moderate'))
	{
		$ID = 27;
		if (isset ($_POST['field_ids']))
		{
			if (is_array ($_POST['field_ids']))  foreach ($_POST['field_ids'] as $k => $ids)
				$_POST['field_ids'][$k] = implode (',', array_diff (explode (',', $_POST['field_ids'][$k]), array ($ID)));
			else
				$_POST['field_ids'] = implode (',', array_diff (explode (',', $_POST['field_ids']), array ($ID)));
		}
	}
}

Replace 27 with the ID of the field that users aren’t allowed to modify.

Yes, I think that’s a good solution.

Please let me know if everything works for you!

You are welcome, all the best with your site!

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