Hide password reset for role

  • Resolved Mariette

    (@mariette-jackson)


    5 years, 8 months ago

    I would like to prevent a particular custom user role being able to

    1. change their own password and

    2. use the email instead of username to log in

    Is this possible?

    many thanks

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  • Plugin Author Caseproof LLC

    (@caseproof)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Mariette,

    1. Here is the code that you can insert at the end of your theme’s functions.php file to disable password change for a particular role:

    
add_filter('allow_password_reset', 'disable_password');
 
function disable_password() 
  {
    if(is_admin()) {
      $userdata = wp_get_current_user();
      $user = new WP_User($userdata->ID);
      if(!empty($user->roles) && is_array($user->roles) && $user->roles[0] == 'administrator')
        return false;
    }
    return true;
  }

    In this case it is Administrator but you can change it.

    2. I’m not sure if this is possible because when the user is not logged in, WordPress doesn’t know the role this user has.

    Cheers

    Thread Starter Mariette

    (@mariette-jackson)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    Thank you very much for the code, that’s great. Haha – hadn’t thought of that for number 2! No worries.

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