WordPress - get user role - best practice

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Hi, I am working on a new plugin for CC and was wondering if there is a better system for determining current user role? I was a little surprised that there is no function in WP that would return string with user role (I know roles are deprecated in favor of current_user_can - capablities), so I was wondering if I am doing things the right way, or there is some better way to do this.

if (is_user_logged_in()){
	if (!current_user_can('delete_posts')){ $user_role = 'Subscriber'; }
	else if (!current_user_can('delete_published_posts')){ $uset_role = 'Contributor'; }
	else if (!current_user_can('read_private_pages')){ $user_role = 'Author'; }
	else if (!current_user_can('edit_dashboard')){ $user_role = 'Editor'; }
	else if (!current_user_can('manage_network')){ $user_role = 'Administrator'; }
	else { $user_role = 'Super Admin'; }
} else { $user_role = 'Anonymous'; }
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$current_user = new WP_User(wp_get_current_user()->id);
$user_roles = $current_user->roles;

$user_roles will then contain an array of roles the current user belongs to.

Hope this helps.

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Works like a charm, I knew there has to be something easier. I’ve already checked out that function yesterday, but I overlooked that it returns role too.

Tnx for help.

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Take a look to this :wink:

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LCweb said

Take a look to this :wink:

Yeah I knew about that, but note this:
Do not pass a role name to current_user_can(), as this is not guaranteed to work correctly.

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OriginalEXE said

Yeah I knew about that, but note this:
Do not pass a role name to current_user_can(), as this is not guaranteed to work correctly.

Yes, you have to use capabilities