I am trying to create a custom page that can only be seen if the user is the admin. Is there a way to find out if a user is the admin WITHOUT the admin panel being displayed? I have tried is_admin() but that only works when the admin panel is showing and I tried the_author_login() but that can only be used within the loop.
[resolved] Finding out if a user is the admin (6 posts)
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wiziology
Posted 5 years ago #
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i use this:
$user_level = 10
10 is admin
cheers
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Posted 5 years ago #
awesome! works great! thanks!
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gr33nman
Posted 5 years ago #
First - I'm a newbie to WP.
Here's a quick recipe edit for this plugin in order to add a link to the wp-admin from the widget instance when logged in as an administrator. It will look like this:
Current Line 125 of document /plugins/ajax-login/al_template.php:
<a href="<?php echo get_settings('siteurl') . '/wp-login.php?action=logout&redirect_to=' . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>"><?php _e('Logout'); ?></a>Line 125 with edit:
<a href="<?php echo get_settings('siteurl') . '/wp-login.php?action=logout&redirect_to=' . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>"><?php _e('Logout'); ?></a><?php global $userdata; get_currentuserinfo(); ?><?php if($userdata->user_level>9){ ?> | <a href="<?php echo get_settings('siteurl') ?>/wp-admin/">admin</a><?php } ?>I couldn't get 'is_admin()' to work, nor could I find examples in the codex, and I had to get_currentuserinfo() even though it had been done earlier in the template, but it works. There may be better methods. Please tell me.
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Kafkaesqui
Posted 5 years ago #
1. is_admin() is a conditional tag used to test if one is in the WordPress administration pages.
2. Here's a recent thread where I point out how to test for admin privileges on the 'current' user:
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Posted 5 years ago #
Thanks, Kafkaesqui. Now I understand!
Incidentally, the plugin I'm talking about is this one:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ajax-login/#post-2154
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