Month: May 2017

How to add a form to a shortcode in WordPress (using PHP and Ajax)

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Recently I needed to develop a Shortcode that would display a form, this blog post details what I did. I used Ajax ( which seems the best way to add forms to shortcodes, but I’d welcome any input from other developers on your approach). So without further ado lets get on with adding a form to … Read more

How to get a users Roles and how to list all WordPress roles in PHP

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This code is handy if you want to find out a users role/s. You could expand it and check if a user has a given role or similar. $user_info = get_userdata(2152); echo ‘Username: ‘ . $user_info->user_login . “\n”; echo ‘User roles: ‘ . implode(‘, ‘, $user_info->roles) . “\n”; echo ‘User ID: ‘ . $user_info->ID . … Read more