John Davidson

Message:

I'm trying to restrict products from a certain category from editing for a specific user role. Any idea how to get the catgories IDs of a product in ...wp-admin/post.php?post=1702&action=edit ?

Here's my code so far:

function restrict_edit_if_in_manufacturing_cat($post){

    global $pagenow, $post_type;



    // Targeting admin edit single product screen

    if ($pagenow === 'post.php' && $post_type === 'product') {



        // Get current user

        $user = wp_get_current_user();



        // Roles

        $roles = (array) $user->roles;



        // Roles to check

        $roles_to_check = array('shop_manager'); // several can be added, separated by a comma



        // Compare

        $compare = array_diff($roles, $roles_to_check);



        // Result is empty

        if (empty($compare)) {



            // $category_ids = ...Get Category IDs here...



            // If 458 is in the category id list die

            if (strpos($category_ids, '458') !== false) {



                wp_die('cheatn');

            } else {



                // do something if needed



            }

        }

    }

}

add_action('pre_get_posts', 'restrict_edit_if_in_manufacturing_cat', 10, 1);

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My Answer:
You can get the category IDs of a product in the admin post edit page by using the following code snippet:

php
global $post;

// Get the product ID
$product_id = $post->ID;

// Get the product categories
$product_categories = wp_get_post_terms($product_id, 'product_cat');

// Loop through the categories and get the IDs
$category_ids = array();
foreach ($product_categories as $category) {
$category_ids[] = $category->term_id;
}

// Now you have an array of category IDs for the product
print_r($category_ids);


You can add this code to your theme's functions.php file or create a custom plugin to restrict product editing based on category IDs for specific user roles.