According to WordPress current_user_can() documentation, use of this method is discouraged.
While checking against particular roles in place of a capability is supported in part, this practice is discouraged as it may produce unreliable results.
WordPress Developer Code Reference
So, how should you check a user’s role the right way? For that we need to a WP_User object. To help make things easy we can use the wp_get_current_user() function to return an instance of that object. See the below snippet for an example.
| <?php | |
| $current_user = wp_get_current_user()->roles; | |
| if ( in_array('administrator', $current_user) ) { | |
| echo 'Current user is an administrator.'; | |
| } |
Leave a Reply