loop-page-comment-restrict.php<\/strong><\/p>\nThis is a copy of loop-page.php. \u00a0The only difference is the comment template. \u00a0Instead of calling the default comment template it will call ‘\/comments-restrict.php’.<\/p>\n
comments_template( '\/comments-restrict.php', true );<\/pre>\ncomments-restrict.php<\/strong><\/p>\nThis is a copy of the comments.php. \u00a0 The difference is you need to copy some login code from “\/wp-includes\/comment-template.php”. \u00a0Specifically the part where it checks for comment_registration and is_user_logged_in. \u00a0After making a copy of comments.php, replace comment_form() with the code below.<\/p>\n
\t\t<?php if ( comments_open() ) : ?>\n\t\t\t<?php do_action( 'comment_form_before' ); ?>\n\t\t\t<div id=\"respond\">\n\t\t\t\t<h3 id=\"reply-title\"><?php comment_form_title( 'Leave a Reply', 'Leave a Reply to %s' ); ?> <small><?php cancel_comment_reply_link( 'Cancel reply' ); ?><\/small><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<?php if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>\n\t\t\t\t\t<?php echo '<p>' . sprintf( __( 'You must be <a href=\"%s\">logged in<\/a> to post a comment.' ), wp_login_url( apply_filters( 'the_permalink', get_permalink( $post_id ) ) ) ) . '<\/p>'; ?>\n\t\t\t\t\t<?php do_action( 'comment_form_must_log_in_after' ); ?>\n <?php else :\n comment_form();\n endif; ?>\n <?php endif; ?><\/pre>\n <\/p>\n
functions.php<\/strong><\/p>\nAll the changes up until now are to hide the comments form on the page. \u00a0However, a malicious user could still try to post a comment to your page because the wordpress setting is to allow anonymous comments. \u00a0To prevent this, we need to catch all comments before it is posted by adding an action hook at ‘pre_comment_on_post’. \u00a0 Add the following code to the functions.php file.<\/p>\n
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if ( ! function_exists( 'comments_restrict' ) ) :\n\/**\n * Restricts comments to logged in users only for the specific pages determined by page template.\n *\n *\/\nfunction comments_restrict($post_ID) {\n $meta_value = get_post_meta($post_ID, '_wp_page_template', true);\n if ($meta_value == 'page-comments-restrict.php') {\n $user = wp_get_current_user();\n if (!$user->ID) wp_die( __('Sorry, you must be logged in to post a comment.') );\n }\n}\nendif;\n\nadd_action('pre_comment_on_post', 'comments_restrict');<\/pre>\n <\/p>\n
That’s it. \u00a0It should restrict users who are not logged in from commenting. \u00a0Test it out with the following steps:<\/p>\n
\n- Replace the code in comments-restrict.php with the normal comments_form(); method. \u00a0 Try to post a comment. \u00a0The result should be a page that says you need to be logged in.<\/li>\n
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