BuddyPress.org | spiritix | Mentions https://buddypress.org/members/spiritix/activity/mentions/ Activity feed mentioning spiritix. Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:21:42 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 37ced06e7ce25589b930719b8476ffb5 Henry Wright replied to the topic How to assign a WP user role based on a registration in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-assign-a-wp-user-role-based-on-a-registration/#post-232894 Sat, 24 Jan 2015 21:58:21 +0000 Hi @spiritix

Just to point out, you can’t use or in PHP. Instead you should use a double pipe like this ||. So your code becomes:

if ( ( $userdata['role'] == "subscriber" ) || ( $userdata['role'] == "contributor" ) )
wp_update_user( $userdata );

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