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How to add a form to a shortcode in WordPress (using PHP and Ajax)

November 3, 2018May 27, 2017 by louie171

Recently I needed to develop a Shortcode that would display a form, this blog post details what I did. I used Ajax ( which seems the best way to add forms to shortcodes, but I’d welcome any input from other developers on your approach). So without further ado lets get on with adding a form to … Read more

How to get a users Roles and how to list all WordPress roles in PHP

May 5, 2017 by louie171

This code is handy if you want to find out a users role/s. You could expand it and check if a user has a given role or similar.

$user_info = get_userdata(2152);
echo 'Username: ' . $user_info->user_login . "\n";
echo 'User roles: ' . implode(', ', $user_info->roles) . "\n";
echo 'User ID: ' . $user_info->ID . "\n";

$allroles = get_editable_roles();

foreach ($allroles as $k => $v) {

    echo "<br>role = $k ";
}

function get_editable_roles() {
    global $wp_roles;

    $all_roles = $wp_roles->roles;
    $editable_roles = apply_filters('editable_roles', $all_roles);

    return $editable_roles;
}

$user_info = get_userdata(2152);

echo 'Username: ' . $user_info->user_login . "\n";

echo 'User roles: ' . implode(', ', $user_info->roles) . "\n";

echo 'User ID: ' . $user_info->ID . "\n";

$allroles = get_editable_roles();

foreach ($allroles as $k => $v) {

echo "<br>role = $k ";

}

function get_editable_roles() {

global $wp_roles;

$all_roles = $wp_roles->roles;

$editable_roles = apply_filters('editable_roles', $all_roles);

return $editable_roles;

}

This code is based on examples from: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_userdata and https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/1665/getting-a-list-of-currently-available-roles-on-a-wordpress-site If you did want to check if the user is in a certain group you could … Read more