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I want to display a message like "You must be logged in to view this", with Private custom posts. Theoretically, I want to use something like this:

if (is_user_logged_in()) {
// Page code goes here
}
else {
echo "You must be logged in to view this page.";
}

This code is in the single-custom.php page template.
The true case works just fine. However, if the user is not logged in, instead of seeing "You must be logged in..." I get a 404 instead? What am I doing wrong?

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Are you doing this inside The Loop? I'd try something like this myself:

if ($post->post_status == "private" && !is_user_logged_in()) {
    echo "You must be logged in to view this page.";
} else if( $post->post_status == "private" && is_user_logged_in() ) {
    // Page code goes here
}
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  • I don't seem to have any custom value "Private" (var_dump(get_post_custom($post->ID))) Feb 9, 2011 at 21:51
  • Sorry about that. Let's try monitoring $post->post_status instead. I've edited my answer.
    – editor
    Feb 9, 2011 at 21:56
  • echo $post->post_status; returns private. So $status = $post->post_status; if ($status == "private" && is_user_logged_in()) { echo "Foo<br /><br />";} else { echo "You must be logged in to view this page."; } I get Foo if I'm logged in and looking at a private custom post, but if I'm not logged in, my single-custom.php isn't loaded but 404.php is instead... (soz, dunno why the backticks aren't working for the code -- its basically as per yours but I changed !== "private" to == "private" Feb 9, 2011 at 22:01
  • Hmm, so it sounds like we can detect if it's private once the content is displayed but by then a 404 is served when not logged in. Seems like the determination of wether the page exists or not might be happening at the rewrite level. If you work with plugins, a technique might be to hook onto the rewrite and do something for private posts that allows them to pass the next hurdle.
    – editor
    Feb 11, 2011 at 0:22
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    It looks like you're in luck. Check out the code posted as an answer here: wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/9099/… I bet you can adapt that for your purposes.
    – editor
    Feb 11, 2011 at 0:24

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