Finding out if a user is the admin

i use this:

$user_level = 10

10 is admin

cheers

awesome! works great! thanks!

First – I’m a newbie to WP.

Here’s a quick recipe edit for this plugin in order to add a link to the wp-admin from the widget instance when logged in as an administrator. It will look like this:

User_Identity
Logout | Admin

Current Line 125 of document /plugins/ajax-login/al_template.php:
<a href="<?php echo get_settings('siteurl') . '/wp-login.php?action=logout&amp;redirect_to=' . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>"><?php _e('Logout'); ?></a>

Line 125 with edit:
<a href="<?php echo get_settings('siteurl') . '/wp-login.php?action=logout&amp;redirect_to=' . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>"><?php _e('Logout'); ?></a><?php global $userdata; get_currentuserinfo(); ?><?php if($userdata->user_level>9){ ?> | <a href="<?php echo get_settings('siteurl') ?>/wp-admin/">admin</a><?php } ?>

I couldn’t get ‘is_admin()’ to work, nor could I find examples in the codex, and I had to get_currentuserinfo() even though it had been done earlier in the template, but it works. There may be better methods. Please tell me.

1. is_admin() is a conditional tag used to test if one is in the WordPress administration pages.

2. Here’s a recent thread where I point out how to test for admin privileges on the ‘current’ user:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/153260#post-681600

Thanks, Kafkaesqui. Now I understand!

Incidentally, the plugin I’m talking about is this one:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/ajax-login/#post-2154