Add this code to your functions.php to add a notice for users with the subscriber role on their profile and dashboard admin pages. function wpse239290_user_welcome_notice() { // Make sure that the user is assigned to the subscriber role, specifically. // Alternatively, capabilities can be checked with current_user_can(), but roles are not supposed to be checked … Read more
You can use wp_update_user to update the role for your newly created user. if ( !username_exists( ‘mytestuser’ ) ) { $user_id = wp_create_user(‘mytestuser’, ‘testpass345′,’[email protected]’); $user_id = wp_update_user( array( ‘ID’ => $user_id, ‘role’ => ‘author’ ) ); } Further reading at WordPress Codex. Or, you can remove the current role and assign a new one: if … Read more
Install User Role Editor Plugin Create a Role for them assign everything except removing admin.
A subscriber has only 1 capability namely: read To create a new (custom)role just add following code-lines in functions.php. Please make back-up first and so on…. When added to functions.php go into the back-end and check if you can add an (new or existing) user to this role. When all is working you can delete … Read more
Try this. It works for me. add_filter( ‘login_redirect’, ‘redirect_non_admin_to_dashboard’), 10, 3 ); function redirect_non_admin_to_dashboard($redirect_to, $requested_redirect_to, $user ) { global $user; if( ! isset( $user->ID ) ) { return $redirect_to; } if ( ! in_array( ‘author’, (array) $user->roles ) ) { $redirect_to = site_url().’/dashboard-teacher’; }elseif( in_array( ‘subscriber’,(array) $user->roles ) ){ $redirect_to = site_url().’/dashboardwwp-student’; }else{ $redirect_to = … Read more
Change: $user_roles = $current_user->roles; with $user = new WP_User( $user_id ); $user_roles = $user->roles; and the $user_id should e the actual user id who’s role you are trying to get. Update, Sorry i just read the author template part so try this: //first get the current author whos page you are viewing if(isset($_GET[‘author_name’])) $curauth = … Read more
I had the same problem, a custom role couldn’t assign categories to my CPT. When doing register_taxonomy(), I added these capabilities: ‘capabilities’ => array ( ‘manage_terms’ => ‘manage_options’, //by default only admin ‘edit_terms’ => ‘manage_options’, ‘delete_terms’ => ‘manage_options’, ‘assign_terms’ => ‘edit_cpt-type’ // can edit cpt-type i.e. custom role ), Hope this helps to people and … Read more
The manage_options argument you see in both function calls is a capability. That particular capability makes the page accessible only to administrators. To make this work, you could change that to one of the editor capabilities like edit_others_posts You could also create a new capability and use that. However, doing either will mean hacking the … Read more
For non-admin users to be able to use an ajax function, you need to also include a second hook using wp_ajax_nopriv So right after this: add_action(‘wp_ajax_add_category_bookly’, ‘add_category_bookly_callback’); you should include this: add_action(‘wp_ajax_nopriv_add_category_bookly’, ‘add_category_bookly_callback’);
Why it doesn’t work for a Plugin: It doesn’t work for plugin because by the time WordPress executes $current_user = wp_get_current_user(); in a plugin, the function wp_get_current_user() isn’t defined yet. WordPress loads that plugin file before it defines those user related functions. However, it works for theme because WordPress loads theme after it defines and … Read more