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Justin Estrada
Justin Estrada
34,995 Points
Posted by Justin Estrada
Justin Estrada
34,995 Points

is_author of this profile page of a certain user role. for example is /author/visitor a certain user role phpconditional

Searched through the codex for just a little thought I'd ask treehouse community.

How would you go about finding the author role of a users page under /author. (I'm not trying to find the logged in persons role, but the author page a visitor is viewing)

Hope that makes sense!

Jacobus Hindson
Jacobus Hindson
14,429 Points
Jacobus Hindson
Jacobus Hindson
14,429 Points

Look at using a combination of get_the_author and $user->roles to echo out the author role...would probably only work if logged in/higher role level - but its a possibility.

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Justin Estrada
Justin Estrada
34,995 Points
Justin Estrada
Justin Estrada
34,995 Points

Hello everyone here is the code I used, to accomplish what I needed!

I wanted to get the author of the /author/user page I wanted so I used the wordpress function get_user_by. Then I used the function user_can to get the user roles with the user id parameter and their capabilities.

The if/elseif statement below says if the user is an admin say adminsupport with like a font awesome icon I used, the second elseif says if they're of user role author say Instructor with font awesome icon and last is if they are a contributor say Member with a check font awesome icon

<?php $author = get_user_by( 'slug', get_query_var( 'author_name' ) ); ?> <?php if(user_can( $author->ID, 'remove_users' )): ?><h2><i class="fa fa-life-saver"></i><?php _e('Admin/Support'); ?></h2> <?php elseif(user_can( $author->ID, 'delete_published_posts' )): ?><h2><i class="fa fa-mortar-board"></i><?php _e('Instructor'); ?></h2> <?php elseif(user_can( $author->ID, 'edit_posts' )): ?><h2><i class="fa fa-check-square-o"></i><?php _e('Member'); ?></h2><?php endif; ?>

Hope this helps anyone who stumbles upon this. Cheers