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How to check if a user is an admin?
For a user in an admin group without elevated privilege (UAC enabled), this method IsCurrentUserAdmin () return !checkCurrentRole: true if checkCurrentRole==false, but false if checkCurrentRole==true If you run code that REQUIRES admin privilege, consider the checkCurrentRole==true. Otherwise, you’ll get a security exception by then.
When is the Administrator account added to the group?
After the initial installation of the operating system, // the only member of the group is the Administrator account. // When a computer joins a domain, the Domain Admins group is added to // the Administrators group.
Can a domain administrator be on a local machine?
In either case, if you have a domain, things can be a little hairy, because a particular user might be an administrator on the local machine, but not on the domain, or vice versa. Finding the info doesn’t necessarily change much, but you may have to think a bit to figure out what you really want.
You can alter the code to work in a script, or pass a username to the program to determine whether the user is admin. If no username is specified, the program checks the admin-hood of the current user.
How to check if a user is in a specific role?
The following function works with user id you can get the current user id by $current_user_id = get_current_user_id (); This is old post but here is one universal function what working on the all WordPress versions. With this function you can search logged in user by role or by user ID/email. Also accept user roles array.
Can a role name be passed to the current user?
UPDATE: Passing a role name to current_user_can () is no longer guaranteed to work correctly (see #22624 ). Instead, you may wish to check user role: I was looking for a way to get a user’s role using the user’s id.
Can a push editor be identified as an administrator?
Brief: The administrator is found, but if we push editor the administrator is as well found. So we just let the administrator pass through and identify the editor only. Thanks for contributing an answer to WordPress Development Stack Exchange! Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research! But avoid …