Richa Ferry Setyawan

Hi @aaresrikanth ,
Thank you for your report. But after doing testing with your information, unfortunately i’m still can’t replicate your issue. We will happy to help you fix if you can provide staging site. Because we can’t replicate your issue in our environtment.

Thanks

Hi @tychow 👋
Thank you again for your patience — and sorry for the delay in replying. We really appreciate you waiting for us.

About your question — you can check whether a group exists using the Permissions API. And if the group doesn’t exist, you can create it and assign permissions immediately with the configuration you described:

Add Specific Permissions → Post type: Post → Operation: View → Adjustment: Enable → Qualification → Categories → All Statuses → select a specific category

Below is a complete working example. This version will check the group by name, create it if it doesn’t exist, and then assign the permissions:

<?php

try {
    // Try to get the group by name
    $group = pp_get_group_by_name("Sample Group", 'pp_group');

    // If no group found, create one
    if (!$group) {
        $group_id = pp_create_group([
            'group_name' => 'Sample Group',
            'group_description' => 'Automatically created group'
        ]);

        if (!$group_id) {
            exit("❌ ERROR: Failed to create group\n");
        }

        echo "✅ SUCCESS: Group created with ID {$group_id}\n";
        $group = get_post($group_id); // Load group object
    }

    // Get the target category (example: slug = sample-category)
    $term = get_term_by('slug', 'sample-category', 'category');

    // Assign permission rules
    $args = [
        'operation'       => 'read',
        'mod_type'        => 'additional',
        'for_item_source' => 'post',
        'for_item_type'   => 'post',
        'via_item_source' => 'term',
        'via_item_type'   => 'category',
        'item_id'         => $term->term_taxonomy_id,
    ];

    $agents = [];
    $agents['item'][$group->ID] = true;

    ppc_assign_exceptions($agents, 'pp_group', $args);
    echo "✅ SUCCESS: Permissions assigned successfully to group\n";

} catch (Exception $e) {
    exit('❌ ERROR: ' . $e->getMessage());
}

Short explanation

• Post type: Post -> ‘for_item_type’ => ‘post’,
• Operation: View -> ‘operation’ => ‘read’,
• Adjustment: Enable -> ‘mod_type’ => ‘additional’,
• Categories -> ‘via_item_type’ => ‘category’,
• select a specific category -> ‘item_id’ => $term->term_taxonomy_id,

Just let us know — we’re always glad to help! 🙌
Wishing you a wonderful day ahead!