Prevent non logged in users from seeing The Events Calendar

logged-in-events.php

<?php

/*
Plugin Name: Logged in only events calendar
Plugin URI: http://tri.be/support/forums/topic/calendar-view/#post-14059
Description: Prevents non-loggedin users from seing The Events Calendar. Requires The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe Inc
Version: 0.1
Author: Joachim Kudish
Author URI: http://jkudish.com/
License: GPLv2
*/

/**
 * @package The Events Calendar
 * @author Joachim Kudish @link http://jkudish.com
*/

/*
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modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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*/


/**
 * Hooks into the parse_request WordPress hook and determines if the page being viewed is an Events Calendar page,
 * if yes and the user isn't logged in, it redirects them to the login url
 * once logged in they will be redirected back to the page they came from
 *
 * @author Joachim kudish <jkudish.com>
 * @link http://tri.be/support/forums/topic/calendar-view/#post-14059
 * @link http://kovshenin.com/2012/01/current-url-in-wordpress-3754/
 * @param stdClass $wp the global $wp object
 * @return null
 */
add_filter('parse_request', 'tribe_parse_request_for_non_logged_in_users');
function tribe_parse_request_for_non_logged_in_users($wp) {
	if( class_exists('TribeEvents') && isset($wp->query_vars['post_type']) && $wp->query_vars['post_type'] == TribeEvents::POSTTYPE && !is_user_logged_in()) {
		wp_redirect( wp_login_url( add_query_arg( $wp->query_string, '', home_url( $wp->request ) ) ) ); exit;
	}
}

Hi @nikkoboy

This code sample is 10 years old and I don't actively do any WordPress work at the moment, so I'm a bit out of the loop (pun intended). That being said, I believe $wp->query_vars['categories'] might contain the categories the post is in so you could compare it to that.

I'm not sure though and you will have to do a bit of trial and error. I recommend posting on the WordPress forums for additional help.

Good luck!

@jkudish thanks for replying to my question! And so diligently! I can testify that this filter still works flawlessly, as I've been using it for the past three years. I was trying this time to fine-tune it. I will try and implement the snippet of code you kindly shared, and if needs be, I'll liaise with the team at the event calendar. Anyway, I'll update this thread once I manage to have this work on my site. Could be useful to others.
Thanks again for your help

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