[wp-hackers] User Roles

[Peter Westwood]

On Mon, March 19, 2007 4:01 pm, Andy Staines wrote:
> So - is there an improvement on using wp_get_current_user() ?

Yes.

>From memory - current_user_can() should provide the functionality you want.

current_user_can() calls has_cap() on the User object which has the
following comment: /has_cap(capability_or_role_name)
(http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-includes/capabilities.php#L258)

Therefore you should be able to do current_user_can("Administrator");

westi
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