Is there anyway to rename a user role name via hook, instead of using plugin? Edit For example, administrator » owner 6 function change_role_name() { global $wp_roles; if ( ! isset( $wp_roles ) ) $wp_roles = new WP_Roles(); //You can list all currently available roles like this… //$roles = $wp_roles->get_names(); //print_r($roles); //You can replace “administrator” … Read more
OK I’m looking for the best way to attack this. I’m very comfortable with PHP and making custom post types with custom meta fields in WordPress. Here is what I’m looking at doing: User registers and is set at subscriber by default. User requests from admin to have permission to custom post type. Admin assigns … Read more
I have set up a WordPress site for a client. The client has the Editor role, however I have installed the Members plugin and given the client the capability to add new users to the WP admin. This is working just fine. The question I have is that I would like for the client to … Read more
I have custom roles in my setup and I want to be able to automatically change a user’s role thru a function. Say user A has a SUBSCRIBER role, how do I change it to EDITOR? When adding a role we just: add_role( $role_name , $role_display_name , array( ‘read’ => true, ‘edit_posts’ => false, ‘delete_posts’ … Read more
When writing WordPress plugins there is often a need to set up options for which roles on the site have access to certain functionality or content. To do this a plugin dev needs to fetch the list of roles that exist on the site to use in the option. Because custom roles can be created … Read more
I would like to be able to grant my editors the power to change the menu, can this be done? The appearance tab doesn’t appear to be an option at all, can I make it so? 7 add this to your theme’s functions.php: // add editor the privilege to edit theme // get the the … Read more
I have a pretty specific requirement to show different text in a field label on the user profile page based on the current user’s role. I can’t seem to figure out how to check whether the current use is an “author”. I am looking for a function like: is_user_in_role($user, “author”); I imagine this is pretty … Read more
How can I check to see if the current logged-in user is an administrator or an editor? I know how to do each individually: <?php if(current_user_can(‘editor’)) { ?> <!– Stuff here for editors –> <?php } ?> <?php if(current_user_can(‘administrator’)) { ?> <!– Stuff here for administrators –> <?php } ?> But how do I work … Read more
