How change user type from contributor to author

I recommend backing up the database before making any major/bulk changes to it. First you need to get all users with the role “contributors”, then update their roles to “author”. $contributors = get_users(array(‘role’=>’contributor’)); foreach($contributors as $contributor){ wp_update_user(array( ‘ID’ => $contributor->ID, ‘role’ => “author”) ); } echo “done updating contributors to authors”; You could have this … Read more