Message you quoted is being generated by members_content_permissions_protect()
function. By default it is used as a filter on the_content()
and the_excerpt()
functions. Since your custom template doesn’t use these – there is no case for function to run.
Try something like this in template:
$content="Content to protect";
echo members_content_permissions_protect( $content );
Another idea:
$protected = members_content_permissions_protect( false );
if( false !== $protected ) {
echo $protected;
}
else {
//template stuff goes here
}