Limit listings of certain CPTs to 1 per user

Alternatively it would be fine to make the old listing expire if a user creates a new one, if there was a way to do this.

Hmm. I realise users can create multiple accounts but that takes more effort on their part which I hope will be a discouragement!

I was thinking about the problem and wondering whether it’d be possible to create a user role for users who have submitted a listing, and assign users to this role when they submit a listing. It’d be pretty straight forward then to hide content from this role, e.g. the add listing page.

This would require some customization but perhaps only a small snippet, i.e. to hook into the listing submission action and then to reassign the user’s role. I think I can reassign the role using the WP_User class, but what would be the correct action/ filter to hook into the listing submission action (of a certain CPT)?

I understand that your support doesn’t cover customization but I’d be really grateful if you could point me in the right direction.

Great, thanks! 🙂 I’ll have a look through that and see what I can do.

I’m interested in changing the user role when a user submits a listing, since I think that could be a simple solution. Do you know what geodirectory function/ action/ filter is relevant to hook into that?

I.e. I want to say “when a user submits a listing, change user role.” I know how to do the latter but not the former. Any tips?

Thanks Kiran and Alex. I’ve now got a snippet working which changes user role when a worker submits a listing (in my case a CV listing). This then lets me easily hide content from the new role, such as the page to add a new listing. I’ll post my code here in case anybody else is interested in this.

add_filter(‘wp_insert_post_empty_content’, ‘change_user_role_when_submit_cv’);

function change_user_role_when_submit_cv( $data ) {
global $post;
$post_type = get_post_type( $post->ID );

if ($post_type = ‘gd_cv’) {

$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
$current_user_roles = $current_user->roles;

if (in_array(‘um_worker’, $current_user_roles)){

$current_user->set_role( ‘worker_has_cv’ );

}

}
return $data;
}

Since the other parts of the code were working fine when the first “if” statement was working, it must be a problem with $post and how I’m trying to access the post type. I’ve put this bit in because I only want the user role to be changed when a listing of a certain CPT (CV) is listed.

add_filter('wp_insert_post_empty_content', 'change_user_role_when_submit_cv');

function change_user_role_when_submit_cv( $data ) {
  global $post;
	
  if ($post['post_type'] =='gd_cv') {
	
	$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
	$current_user_roles = $current_user->roles;
	
	if (in_array('um_worker', $current_user_roles)){
	  
	  	$current_user->set_role( 'worker_has_cv' );
	}
  
  }
  return $data;
}