Disable Video Ads For Logged-in Users

MBD S. 6 years, 8 months ago

Hello,

I’m a FV Player Pro customer. I want to be able to disable video ads for logged-in users, to encourage people to sign up.

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance

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MBD S. 7 years ago

I think I might have figures this out by editing line 2788 on fv-player-pro.class.php

Old:

if (count($aVideoAdsEnabled) == 0 ) {
return $aItems;
}
New:
if (count($aVideoAdsEnabled) == 0 OR is_user_logged_in() ) {
return $aItems;
}

Do you agree this is the right place to put the code? I’m guessing there could be an easier way but I just don’t want to wait for another update. Can I keep this as it is without problems?

Thank you
Martin 7 years ago
Hello MBD,

you shouldn’t be modifying any plugin core code.

Instead, you can unhook the function which puts in these video ads via WP filters API by putting this code into your theme functions.php file:
```
add_action( 'init', 'fv_tweak_video_ads' );

function fv_tweak_video_ads( $arg ) {
  if( is_user_logged_in() ) {
    global $FV_Player_Pro;
    remove_filter( 'fv_flowplayer_playlist_items', array( $FV_Player_Pro, 'video_ads' ), 10, 2 );
    remove_filter( 'fv_flowplayer_playlist_item_html', array( $FV_Player_Pro, 'video_ads_item_html') ); 
  }
}
```
Please let us know how it goes. We could add an option for this as well, but then some websites will require that the user has a paid membership and then it goes really complex. We should master that though.

Thanks,
Martin
MBD S. 7 years ago

Thank you, Martin. I think the issue you raised could be addressed by enabling/disabling ads for certain user roles. That shouldn’t be too complex. People should appoint a different role for paid members.

MBD S. 7 years ago

Your code does work by the way. Thanks

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