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Mic

Reputation: 333

Changing user role name Wordpress

I have been changing user roles name on wordpress how ever If i call

implode(', ', $user->roles)

I still get the original role names, Administrator, Subscriber, etc.

So, i figured something like this would be the correct way.

            if(implode(', ', $user->roles) = "administrator"){
							$role = "Site owner";
						}
						else{
							$role = "User";
						}

                       echo $role;

I am running this for each user,how ever this does not work. What should i be doing to change the names? the backend presents the name correctly. how ever i wish to have the names on the front end for the users accounts.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 929

Answers (1)

Full Stop
Full Stop

Reputation: 853

More specifically, a user's role can be set by creating an instance of the WP_user class, and calling the add_role() or remove_role() methods.

Example

Change a subscribers role to editor

// NOTE: Of course change 3 to the appropriate user ID
   $u = new WP_User( 3 );

// Remove role
   $u->remove_role( 'subscriber' );

// Add role
   $u->add_role( 'editor' );

Hopefully that's more helpful than my initial response, which wasn't necessarily as helpful.

Upvotes: 1

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