i am trying to make a simple custom field (made without a plugin) readonly or disabled for a specific user role in functions.php, is this possible ?

thanks

i am trying to make a simple custom field (made without a plugin) readonly or disabled for a specific user role in functions.php, is this possible ?

thanks

• customization
• custom-field
• users
• user-roles

Share Improve this question asked Mar 1, 2020 at 16:07 sofdesignesofdesigne 122 bronze badges 5

• By "custom field", you mean an <input> field? – Sally CJ Commented Mar 1, 2020 at 16:53
• yes please, thanks – sofdesigne Commented Mar 1, 2020 at 17:28
• And are you referring to the current user? If not, can add your code to the question? – Sally CJ Commented Mar 1, 2020 at 17:37
• yes the current user with a specific role, can just view the field content, not able to change it, but the admin can – sofdesigne Commented Mar 2, 2020 at 9:11
• I posted an answer. Let me know. – Sally CJ Commented Mar 2, 2020 at 9:39

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First, you can get the current user object like so: $user = wp_get_current_user();.

The $user object would have a roles property containing the user's roles, so you can do the following to check if the current user has a specific role: in_array( 'role_slug', $user->roles ).

And then in your field HTML, you can use the disabled() and readonly() functions to easily add the disabled and readonly attributes:

<?php
// Get the current user object.
$user = wp_get_current_user();

// Check if the associated user has a specific role.
$has_role = in_array( 'administrator', $user->roles );
?>
<input name="some_name" <?php disabled( true, ! $has_role ); ?> />
<input name="some_name2" <?php readonly( true, ! $has_role ); ?> />

And the above would make the field be disabled/readonly if the current user doesn't have the role administrator (note the ! $has_role).