Exclude Roles from new WP_Roles()

  • Hello, is it possible to exclude roles from new WP_Roles()? Basically I built a dropdown of user roles which works great; however, I need to exclude certain roles such as Administrator and Editor. I haven’t found any examples of this or much documentation at all. Maybe there’s a better way of achieving this I haven’t found?

    
<select class="author-search-select" name="staff_type" onchange="filterdata.submit();">
	<option value="all">Show All</option>
	<?php $roles = new WP_Roles();
	$roles_names = $roles->get_names();
	foreach ( $roles_names  as $role_slug => $role_name ) {
		// Check if the staff type is selected in the URL
		if ( $role_slug == $selected_staff_type ) {
			$set_select_staff_type = ' selected="selected"';
		} else {
			$set_select_staff_type = NULL;
		} ?>
	    <option value="<?php echo $role_slug; ?>"<?php echo $set_select_staff_type; ?>><?php echo $role_name; ?></option>
	<?php } ?>
</select>
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  • Hello InHouse,

    Thanks for the question about controlling the roles in WordPress. I am sure there is a solution you can develop that will address it, but there is also at least one plugin that I know of that could help you accomplish: Advanced Access Manager. It works with version 4.7 and provides a lot of functionality including the option to manage, create or delete roles.

    I hope that this is a viable solution for you.

    Regards,
    Arnel C.

    Thread Starter InHouse

    (@inhouse)

    Thanks @arncus but my question is regarding listing users publicly and filtering by role. The dropdown appears at the top of a page. I simply need to list all user roles and exclude a couple.

    Inside the foreach, just check if the role it’s currently up to is one that you’d like to list. If it isn’t, use continue before outputting the option tag.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by Jacob Peattie.
    Thread Starter InHouse

    (@inhouse)

    Ah ok. I wasn’t sure if new WP_Roles() would accept some kind of $args.

    In case it helps anyone else I’m pasting my working code below.

    
$roles = new WP_Roles();
$roles_names = $roles->get_names();
foreach ( $roles_names  as $role_slug => $role_name ) {
	// Check if the staff type is selected in the URL
	if ( $role_slug == $selected_staff_type ) {
		$set_select_staff_type = ' selected="selected"';
	} else {
		$set_select_staff_type = NULL;
	}
	if ( $role_slug !== 'administrator' && $role_slug !== 'editor' && $role_slug !== 'no_role' ) { ?>
	    <option value="<?php echo $role_slug; ?>"<?php echo $set_select_staff_type; ?>><?php echo $role_name; ?></option>
    <?php }
}
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