You want to use the method WP_User::set_role() https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_user/set_role/ If you want to add the role as an additional role, replace set_role with add_role add_action( ‘frm_after_create_entry’, ‘inactive_to_member’, 20, 2 ); function inactive_to_member($entry_id, $form_id) { if ( $form_id == 21 ) { // form id of the form to copy $user = wp_get_current_user(); //get logged in user … Read more
If you only need this for current user current_user_can() accepts both roles and capabilities. UPDATE: Passing a role name to current_user_can() is no longer guaranteed to work correctly (see #22624). Instead, you may wish to check user role: $user = wp_get_current_user(); if ( in_array( ‘author’, (array) $user->roles ) ) { //The user has the “author” … Read more
Apart from what I said in the comments — adding new roles should not be done on every (admin) init (here’s why), your code is actually good, but your post type is set to show under the custom admin menu named “Price Calculator” (see the ‘show_in_menu’ => ‘my-menu’ in your post type arguments), so you’d … Read more
Allow a particular user to access a particular plugin?
Figured out an easier way. I gave them the edit_other_posts and edit_other_pages role capabilities, and then blocked their access to the admin area using the following: add_action( ‘init’, ‘eri_block_nonadmins_init’ ); function eri_block_nonadmins_init() { $current_url = eri_get_current_url( true, false); if ( (!current_user_can( ‘administrator’ ) && !( defined( ‘DOING_AJAX’ ) && DOING_AJAX )) && (is_admin() || $current_url … Read more
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