Show AI Search to subscribers at or above a required tier

Premium Intermediate Since v1.0.0

Renders the AI Search widget for subscribers whose active tier meets or exceeds a configurable tier slug, and falls back to the core search for everyone else.

Add [my_tiered_search show_id="123" required_tier="growth"] to any page. Subscribers at the growth tier or above (higher tier_order) see [benecaster_ai_search]; lower-tier subscribers, logged-out users, and non-subscribers see [benecaster_search].

The AI Search add-on must be active for the AI branch to render. When the add-on is inactive, [benecaster_ai_search] is unregistered and the recipe falls through to the core search automatically — no conditional needed in your template.

benecaster_get_user_tier_for_show() respects the Preview-as-Tier admin tool, so the correct search widget appears during preview mode.

Code

<?php
add_shortcode( 'my_tiered_search', function ( $atts ): string {
    $atts = shortcode_atts(
        [
            'show_id'       => 0,
            'required_tier' => '',
        ],
        $atts,
        'my_tiered_search'
    );

    $show_id       = (int) $atts['show_id'];
    $required_slug = sanitize_key( (string) $atts['required_tier'] );

    if ( $show_id <= 0 || '' === $required_slug ) {
        return '';
    }

    $ai_shortcode       = sprintf( '[benecaster_ai_search show_id="%d"]', $show_id );
    $fallback_shortcode = sprintf( '[benecaster_search show_id="%d"]', $show_id );

    if ( ! shortcode_exists( 'benecaster_ai_search' ) ) {
        return do_shortcode( $fallback_shortcode );
    }

    $user_tier_slug = benecaster_get_user_tier_for_show( $show_id );
    if ( '' === $user_tier_slug ) {
        return do_shortcode( $fallback_shortcode );
    }

    $repo          = new \Benecaster\Membership\MembershipTierRepository();
    $required_tier = $repo->find_by_slug( $show_id, $required_slug );
    $user_tier     = $repo->find_by_slug( $show_id, $user_tier_slug );

    if ( null === $required_tier || null === $user_tier ) {
        return do_shortcode( $fallback_shortcode );
    }

    if ( (int) $user_tier['tier_order'] >= (int) $required_tier['tier_order'] ) {
        return do_shortcode( $ai_shortcode );
    }

    return do_shortcode( $fallback_shortcode );
} );

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