Restrict WordPress File Type Uploads by User Type

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I’m looking to restrict all users (other than admins) to only be able to upload images e.g JPG’s and PNGs allowed for all users but still allow admins to upload pdfs etc. (Or even better would be to only prevent unregistered users from uploading anything other than JPGs and PNGs!)

I’ve been trying the following functions.php code but it still seems to restrict admins from uploading PDFs:

add_filter('upload_mimes','restict_mime'); 
function restict_mime($mimes) { 
if(!current_user_can(‘administrator’)){
    $mimes = array( 
                'jpg|jpeg|jpe' => 'image/jpeg', 
                'png' => 'image/png', 
    ); 
}
    return $mimes;
}

Any ideas?

2 Answers
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There is a syntax error in your conditional:

current_user_can(‘administrator’)

The input value is wrapped in ‘ ’, which should be wrapped in ' ' instead. Right now, because ‘administrator’ is neither a role nor capability, the above will always return a false value, therefore 

if(!current_user_can(‘administrator’))

will always return true, which will restrict the mime type for everyone, including administrators. The correct form will be :

if( !current_user_can('administrator') ) { 
    //CODE HERE
}

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