How to: Get all users having a specific role

How to: Get all users having a specific role

When developing plugins or advanced WordPress theme, sometimes it can be useful to get all the users belonging to a specific role, for exemple, all administrators. My friend John Kolbert just wrote a great function to do that.

The first thing to do is to create the function. To do so, paste the following code in your functions.php file:

function getUsersWithRole($role) {
      $wp_user_search = new WP_User_Search($usersearch, $userspage, $role);
      return $wp_user_search->get_results();
}

Once done, you can call the function this way:

$editors = getUsersWithRole('editor');
foreach($editors as $editor){
     //$editor now holds the user ID of an editor
}

Thanks to John Kolbert for this great recipe!

7 Responses

Web Design Beach

Mar 04 2009 23:21

Agree with you. When you have team behind your Wordpress blog, all on different positions, it is very useful to have them marked and separated in meaningful order and syntax.