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Enable “Create a Group” button for Admin and Editor role only

@giorrous

Participant

11 years ago

Hello,

I want to hide “Create a Group” button for all user roles except Admin and Editor.I want to make it so that only Admins and Editors are allowed to create groups.
Any ideas how can i achive this?

Thank you.

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@henrywright

Moderator

11 years ago
You could use current_user_can() to check the member’s capabilities. For example:
```
if ( current_user_can( 'edit_pages' ) ) {
    // Output button
}
```
Ref: https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
@giorrous

Participant

11 years ago

Thanks for the answer!!
In which file i must write this code?

@henrywright

Moderator

11 years ago

It isn’t a copy-and-paste thing. You’d need to place your button inside the condition.

@giorrous

Participant

11 years ago

Ok thanks i’ll try it

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