My advice is to read the Codex regarding user roles and capabilities. Contributors cannot publish posts. Edit: I am able to successfully add new users with the ‘contributor’ role, and select them from the dropdown as the author of a post, which is what I now realize you’re having issues with. So something is definitely … Read more
Use add_role with any array of capabilities. Example: add_role( ‘custom_role’, ‘Custom Role’, array( ‘read’ => true ) );
Turns out it’s a real bad idea to map your own meta capabilities. To solve this problem I ended up going through the steps you would with a map_meta_cap function with TWO plugins. Use [Map Cap] to automatically map the meta capabilities of my new custom post type to my specific user roles. Then had … Read more
A new capability has to be explicitly added to either a role or a user. In your case if you want all administrators to have ‘cap’ capability you will add it to ‘administrator’ role: $role = get_role( ‘administrator’ ); $role->add_cap( ‘cap’ ); If you want a specific administrator only to have ‘cap’ capability then you … Read more
Use get_users() function. Reference function notify_editors( $post_id ) { $post = get_post( $post_id ); // Get all editors $editors = get_users( [ ‘role__in’ => [ ‘editor’] ] ); foreach ( $editors as $editor ) { // Setup email $subject = “Post Published: ” . $post->post_title; $message=” Hi ” . $editor->display_name . ‘, Your post, “‘ … Read more
count_users() should give you an array of all the required user counts. You can use it like this. $user_counts = count_users(); $authors = $user_counts[‘avail_roles’][‘author’]; //Get the author count $subscribers = $user_counts[‘avail_roles’][‘subscriber’]; //Get the subscriber count echo $authors. ‘ Authors so far’; echo $subscribers. ‘ Subscribers so far’;
You can do it by executing simple SQL query: UPDATE wp_usermeta SET meta_value=”a:1:{s:11:”contributor”;b:1;}” WHERE meta_key = ‘wp_capabilities’ AND meta_value=”a:1:{s:10:”subscriber”;b:1;}” This query will updated all subscribers to be contributors.
Here’s the solution. Comments included: <?php $results = get_users(‘role=director’); foreach ($results as $result) { // Get data about each user as an object $user = get_userdata($result->ID); // Create a flat array with only the fields we need $directors[$user->ID] = array( ‘dir_order’ => $user->exit_director_order, ‘dir_id’ => $user->ID, ‘dir_name’ => $user->first_name.’ ‘.$user->last_name ); } // Sort sort($directors); … Read more
Your question seems to boil down to this I can’t figure out how to check that the $userids in question are an administrators user ID. Try user_can($id,’administrator’) http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/user_can The Codex has a warning about using role names with the current_user_can function and it is very similar to user_can so I suppose caution is order until … Read more
I’ve edited the code a bit and this works on my localhost. Try it and let me know if it does the job. Be careful to edit your own admin role though. Or put in another condition to prevent updating your admin role in case of a use error. Edit: added ob_start() thanks to Mark … Read more