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How to Get All Users With a Specific Role
This WordPress tutorial shows you how to get all users with a specific role. This can be used for mass emailing subscribers, mass changing user roles, or whatever your developing heart desires!
Sometimes as a WordPress plugin developer you want to get all of the users with a specific role. For example, maybe you want to create a plugin that emails all the “Editors” of your blog. To easily get all users of a role, use the function below.
1 2 3 4 5 6 | function getUsersWithRole($role) {//gets all users with specified role $wp_user_search = new WP_User_Search($usersearch, $userspage, $role); return $wp_user_search->get_results();} |
The getUsersWithRole() function returns an array containing the user IDs of all users with the role you specified. To use this, just set the function to a variable and loop through the array.
1 2 3 4 5 | $editors = getUsersWithRole('editor');foreach($editors as $editor){ //$editor now holds the user ID of an editor} |
Update: It’s important to note that this function only works on admin pages of WordPress (such as plugin or theme options pages). It is not available for theme template usage.
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