[wp-hackers] glitch with the_content filter and password-protected posts

[David F. Carr]

Thanks for your help.

Otto, why do you use $post = get_post() in your example code?

I usually put global $post at the top of the function definition.



On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Nikola Nikolov <nikolov.tmw at gmail.com>wrote:

> That's true I forgot that there for a second.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Nikola Nikolov <nikolov.tmw at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > So it seems like what you should do in your function that adds extra
> > output
> > > is something like this:
> > >
> > > if ( post_password_required( $post ) ) {
> > >     return '';
> > > }
> >
> > Actually, you want to return the content unchanged, so that the
> > password form is properly displayed. Filters that do nothing need to
> > return whatever input they were given, not an empty string.
> >
> > So, something like this:
> >
> > add_filter('the_content','example');
> > function example( $content ) {
> >   $post = get_post();
> >   if ( post_password_required( $post ) ) {
> >     return $content;
> >   }
> >
> >   // .. rest of your filter code here
> > }
> >
> >
> > -Otto
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