This isn’t heavily tested, but my head is saying it should work. Please test and let me know if you get the wrong results.
/**
* Filter the update leaders function and conditionally undo addition of admins.
*
* @param $leaders Array of current leaders for the leaderboard
* @param $leaderboard_id Leaderboard ID we are updating.
* @param $original_leaders Array of original leaders before most recent addition.
*
* @return array
*/
function custom_exclude_admins_from_leaderboard( $leaders, $leaderboard_id, $original_leaders ) {
// Grab all of our current site admins.
$admins = new WP_User_Query( array( 'role' => 'Administrator' ) );
$admin_users = $admins->get_results();
$admin_ids = array();
// Loop over the admins to get an array of just their IDs.
foreach ( $admin_users as $user ) {
$admin_ids[] = $user->ID;
}
// Placeholder boolean to hold whether or not to update the leaderboard data.
$should_update = false;
foreach ( $leaders as $key => $leader ) {
if ( in_array( $leader['user_id'], $admin_ids ) ) {
// We found an admin being added to the leaderboard data.
$should_update = true;
}
}
if ( $should_update ) {
// Since we just added an administrator, we need to re-set the leaderboard data to
// the state it was previously at.
update_post_meta( $leaderboard_id, '_badgeos_leaderboard_leaders', $original_leaders );
return $original_leaders;
}
return $leaders;
}
add_filter( 'badgeos_leaderboard_update_leaders', 'custom_exclude_admins_from_leaderboard', 10, 3 );
Gist version: https://gist.github.com/tw2113/fa6d3b6ca5260509f053
Should be fine to be added via your functions.php or if you want, a quick custom plugin.
