I need to check if Current user is Author to Custom Post Type

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I want to write a conditional statement (in pseudo below to explain) 

IF current logged in user is 'Author' to a custom-post-type called 'farmers' {
// Do something
} else {
// Do something else
}

My code effort so far is

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<?php
// Global variable for current user ID
$user_ID;

// Create a new WP query object           
$my_query = new WP_Query( array(
'post_type' => 'farmers',
'author' => $user_ID
));

// Get all the current user posts from the query object
$posts = $my_query->posts;

IF $posts = 0 {
// Do something
} else {
// Do Something else
} ?>

User can have the role “Author” in the system, but not necessarily have any posts. So I need to check the condition that this Author actually has a post. I am just not sure how to write that IF statement at the end of the code and looking for some help.

Thanks

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3 comments

  2. For anyone looking to check a specific post you can check if

    get_current_user_id() == get_post($your_post_id)->post_author

    Or in the WordPress loop you can check if

    get_current_user_id() == $post->post_author

    And for completeness sake, the following answers the original question. This checks if the current user is the author of any post belonging to a custom post type; in this case farmers

    $my_query = new WP_Query( array(
  'post_type' => 'farmers',
  'author' => get_current_user_id()
));

if ( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
  // Do something
} else {
  // Do Something else
}

  3. Use something like this 

    $query="select * from posts where type='farmers'";
$result=mysql_query($query);
$valid=false;
if(mysql_num_rows($result)>0){
$valid=true;
}


if($_SESSION["id"]==$posts["id"]){
//your code
}else{
//your code
}

    or

    if(mysql_num_rows($posts)>0){
// user have post
 }