Hide Default User Roles

Resolved Kyle H
(@cikez)

12 years, 11 months ago

First of all I would like to thank you for the great plugin.

Now I have researched several sites and cannot for the life of me find a way to do this. I want to use User Role Editor to create my own custom user roles but I do not want the default user roles of wordpress to still be available in the dropdown menu’s. Example: Author, Subscriber, etc..

Do you know if there is anyway to hide these roles completely?

Thanks!

http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/user-role-editor/

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Plugin Author

(@shinephp)

Try to add this code into your active theme functions.php file:

if (!current_user_can('administrator')) {
add_filter('editable_roles', 'exclude_role' );
public function exclude_role($roles)
{

    if (isset($roles['administrator'])) {
      unset($roles['administrator']);
    }

    return $roles;
}
}

If it work for you, add code for the rest of WP roles.

Thread Starter

Kyle H

(@cikez)

12 years, 11 months ago

Vladimir,

I tried adding the following code to my themes functions.php file and got

if (!current_user_can('author')) {
add_filter('editable_roles', 'exclude_role' );
public function exclude_role($roles)
{

    if (isset($roles['author'])) {
      unset($roles['author']);
    }

    return $roles;
}
}

“HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error): An unexpected condition was encountered while the server was attempting to fulfill the request.”

Any ideas?

Clayton Kreisel

(@claytonkreisel)

12 years ago

Kyle,

Get rid of the “public” in front of function. I ran this and everything works great.

function exclude_role($roles) {

		//Hide Defualt Roles
	    if (isset($roles['author'])) {
	      unset($roles['author']);
	    }

		if (isset($roles['editor'])) {
	      unset($roles['editor']);
	    }

		if (isset($roles['subscriber'])) {
	      unset($roles['subscriber']);
	    }

		if (isset($roles['contributor'])) {
	      unset($roles['contributor']);
	    }

	    return $roles;
	 }
	 add_filter('editable_roles', 'exclude_role' );

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