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