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I want a certain role to be able to add new tags, but other users should just be able to use the text bar to search for existing tags.
I know I can hide the tag bar in the sidebar, but I don't want that. I just want it to say "Sorry, this tag does not exist" or something when someone enters a tag that doesn't exist.
Is there a plugin or a function that will do that for me?
You can hook onto pre_insert_term, check the taxonomy and whether or not the user has the specified role as follows:
function disallow_insert_term($term, $taxonomy) {
$user = wp_get_current_user();
if ( $taxonomy === 'post_tag' && in_array('somerole', $user->roles) ) {
return new WP_Error(
'disallow_insert_term',
__('Your role does not have permission to add terms to this taxonomy')
);
}
return $term;
}
add_filter('pre_insert_term', 'disallow_insert_term', 10, 2);
This will prevent the user inserting new terms but allow them to search and add existing terms to a post.
Beaware that when on the post edit screen a user can enter in a term name that does not exist and press enter or click the add button which will add the term to the DOM however at this point the term is not added to the database until the user publishes or updates the post at which point the term will be disallowed.
post_tag and not some other taxonomy like categories or some custom taxonomy?
wp-config.php set the following constants, define('WP_DEBUG', true);, define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', true);, and define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false); then in the function snippet above, log a call to error_log($taxonomy); and another call to error_log(implode(', ', $user->roles)); then add a tag then update the post, this will then create a debug.log file in the wp-content directory. You need to work out whether or not this function is being called and whether or not it is entering the conditional statement correctly because this callback works for me.