I refactored the code to not use that, it now is:

<?php
if ( current_user_can('subscriber') ){ 
  $subscriber = TRUE;
	echo "<br><br><br><br><br><br><h1>UserID " . get_current_user_id() . " IS SUBSCRIBER</h1>";
} else {
  $subscriber = FALSE;
	echo "<br><br><br><br><br><br><h1>UserID " . get_current_user_id() . " IS NOT A SUBSCRIBER</h1>";
}

get_header(); 
?>

However, it still does not work. I added code to show the current userID in the template, and the system forgets the UserID when clicking on any of the pager/filter links.

For example, if you go to the /startups page it shows at the top:

UserID 15 IS SUBSCRIBER

but if you click the NEXT link for page 2, it then shows at the top:

UserID 0 IS NOT A SUBSCRIBER

showing that it has lost the user state (now user 0 instead of the actual User 15), causing the template to display a non-logged in results page.

It seems like there is something wrong in your ajax call where it is losing the user state for the session.

Btw, Feel free to edit the template file for testing purposes (it’s not a production site and I’ve got backups). Just let me know what you changed so I can keep track of it going forward.

Thanks

I tested the site with adding random variables to the query string and it did NOT show the user as logged out. Screen recording of the test here:

https://www.loom.com/share/75f0511697064f118f5cb0f3670f53e3

You may have seen a cached page when you did your test, but if you hard-reload the page or go to the URL directly as shown in the video, it does in fact preserve the user state.

I didn’t recreate the filters in the video (somebody else set it up originally) but it seems to be working properly except for the S&F user issue.

If you want to work through this together, you can reach me at 1-443-910-3677 (cell/text) and we can debug in real-time. If you want to give me a date/time we can discuss, I’ll try to make myself available so we can get this resolved.

Do you have this working on other sites where the data is rendered varying based on the logged in user, or is this a new thing we’re trying to do?

Thanks,

– Brian