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How to check if a user is in a specific role?

April 3, 2022 by Tarik Billa

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

If the current user is an administrator or editor

April 3, 2022 by Tarik Billa

First answer, not WordPress-related because it is just only PHP: Use the logic “OR” operator: <?php if( current_user_can(‘editor’) || current_user_can(‘administrator’) ) { ?> // Stuff here for administrators or editors <?php } ?> If you want to check more than two roles, you can check if the roles of the current user is inside an … Read more