WP_User > which role has the logged in user

  • After seeing, that a lot of people would need it and not finding any documentation or any code that works, here goes my sollution:

    $cur_user_roles = $current_user->roles;
        foreach($cur_user_roles as $cur_user_roles_value) {
            $role_to_compare = $cur_user_roles_value;
        }

        if($role_to_compare == 'administrator') {
            echo "Administrator ";
        } elseif($role_to_compare == 'editor') {
            echo "Editor ";
        } elseif($role_to_compare == 'author') {
            echo "Author ";
        } elseif($role_to_compare == 'contributor') {
            echo "Contributer ";
        } elseif($role_to_compare == 'subscriber') {
            echo "Subscriber ";
        } else {
            echo "<i>Att.: user got no actual role in the system</i> ";
        }

    It would even work, when a user would have got multiple roles (downgrading – highest is a match).

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  • Thread Starter Franz Josef Kaiser

    (@f-j-kaiser)

    BUT: I still got the problem, that this won`t work with a redirect based on the user_role. I added the following to my functions.php and it doesn′t work (the “else” case always is true):

    add_filter( 'login_redirect', 'redirect_login' );
    function redirect_login( $c ) {
    global $current_user;
    global $wpdb;
    get_currentuserinfo();
    $cur_user_roles = $current_user->roles;
        foreach($cur_user_roles as $cur_user_roles_value) {
            $role_to_compare = $cur_user_roles_value;
        }
            if($role_to_compare == 'administrator') {
                return get_bloginfo( 'url' ) . '/list_aus';
            } elseif($role_to_compare == 'editor') {
                return get_bloginfo( 'url' ) . '/editor';
            } elseif($role_to_compare == 'author') {
                return get_bloginfo( 'url' ) . '/author';
            } elseif($role_to_compare == 'contributor') {
                return get_bloginfo( 'url' ) . '/contributor';
            } elseif($role_to_compare == 'subscriber') {
                return get_bloginfo( 'url' ) . '/subscriber';
            } else {
                return get_bloginfo( 'url' ) . '/none';
            }
    }

    add_action( 'wp_logout', 'redirect_logout' );
    function redirect_logout() {
           wp_safe_redirect( get_bloginfo('url') );
           exit();
    }
    Thread Starter Franz Josef Kaiser

    (@f-j-kaiser)

    ok. now you can get it with for ex. current_user_can(‘administrator’).

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