Comments on: Get current user role in WordPress

By: Chris Jeffries

Chris Jeffries — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 02:07:32 +0000

If there are multiple permitted roles and you want to know if the user has any of them:
function current_user_is_permitted($permitted_roles) {
if (in_array(‘*’, $permitted_roles)) { //* is the super-permission
return true;
}
$user = wp_get_current_user();
$roles = ( $user instanceof WP_User )? $user->roles: [‘visitor’];
return (count(array_intersect($roles, $permitted_roles))>0);
}

By: Roland

Roland — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:47:37 +0000

In reply to Gareth. Correct, otherwise only the first assigned role will be returned and not all assigned roles as multi-role assignment is possible.

By: Gareth

Gareth — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 06:04:32 +0000

In reply to Mr Alexander. You can see that $user->roles is actually an array. Just return that instead of the first element.

By: Mr Alexander

Mr Alexander — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 01:23:11 +0000

What about the event that a user has multiple roles?

By: Deepak

Deepak — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 07:47:46 +0000

I want to get two different login form for two different roles on two different pages.