You have to set user role using user id. use below code to assign role to user. add below code after this line : $user_id = wp_create_user($firstname,$lastname,$email); set role to new created user. by default it will set subscriber role. $user_id_role = new WP_User($user_id); $user_role = !empty($_POST[‘role’]) ? $_POST[‘role’] : ‘subscriber’; $user_id_role->set_role($user_role); i have tested … Read more
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I found the solution to my problem. It had to do with my function that removes the manager role. I commented it out, and it works. My bad. Here’s the working code: if ( ! ( role_exists( ‘manager’ ) ) ) { function new_role_manager() { global $wp_roles; if ( ! isset( $wp_roles ) ) { … Read more
This is based on Bosco’s comment. You can do this instead of line 3 in the above code: wp_roles()->is_role( ‘editor’ ); That grabs a WP_Roles object (what the code you had tries to do by getting a global variable) and calls the same is_role() function.
It looks like your $user variable contents are not an instance of a WP_User class. You’ve got an error of stdClass, but you need the WP_User. Check what class the $user is the instance. If you use the get_users() function, you should note one feature of this function described in the documentation: Return value is … Read more
Woocommerce is considered off-topic here but as a general answer, it is considered best practice to check against capabilities instead of roles In WP, this is done like that: add_action(‘init’, ‘wpse_capability_check’); // hooked on ‘init’ but depends on your actual code logic function wpse_capability_check(){ // you should check on a capability that only validated user … Read more
What you want is add_role() The Codex provides sample code: $result = add_role( ‘basic_contributor’, __( ‘Basic Contributor’ ), array( ‘read’ => true, // true allows this capability ‘edit_posts’ => true, ‘delete_posts’ => false, // Use false to explicitly deny ) ); if ( null !== $result ) { echo ‘Yay! New role created!’; } else … Read more
the Short and sweet way would be to store the post id that they are allowed to edit in custom user meta. Then us wp_update_post and check if the id is in the user meta if so update if not don’t.