Get User Role

Opis

This plugin doesn’t do anything on the surface but if you call the get_user_role() function then you can achieve one of two results.

Function

Returns the role of the specified user.

Usage

Parameters

$user_id
(string)(optional) 'username’

Return Values

(string) If no $user_id is specified in the function call the function will return the role of the currently logged in user, otherwise the role of the specified user will be returned.

Examples

$role = get_user_role(„admin”);

This will return „administrator”.

Notes

This plugin may call the following global variables:

$current_user
$wp_roles
$wpdb

This plugin is designed to work with any correctly made custom roles.