How to hide fields based on the current user's role

Created by Phil Kurth, Modified on Mon, 03 Jul 2023 at 10:23 AM by Phil Kurth

If you need to hide fields based on a user's role, you may do so using the af/field/before_render filter. By returning false, you can effectively prevent a field from rendering in the form as per the following example:

add_filter( 'af/field/before_render', function ( $field, $form, $args ) {

  // Check if this is the correct form
  if ( $form['key'] !== 'form_63603dfd5f7d2' ) {
    return $field;
  }

  // Get the current user role
  if ( $current_user = wp_get_current_user() ) {

    // Limit some fields to administrators only
    if ( ! in_array( 'administrator', $current_user->roles ) ) {

      // If the field key is within any of the specified, hide it
      if ( in_array( $field['key'], [ 'field_63603df414f2a', 'field_63603e7514f2b' ] ) ) {
        return false;
      }
    }
  }

  return $field;
}, 10, 3 );