user role after approval

Hi @bmarshall411,

Thanks for using the plugin,

I hope you are doing well, There are no settings in the plugin to set any roles to be assigned to approved users.

However you can use this code to assign a specific role to users when they are approved by the admin, the code basically removes the user’s current role and assign your given role to the user.

You will need to paste this code into your child theme’s function.php file.
Please test it and let us know.

add_action('new_user_approve_user_approved', 'assign_role_to_user_after_approval');

function assign_role_to_user_after_approval($user) {

if (!empty($user) && is_a($user, 'WP_User')) {

    $role_to_assign = 'contributor';
    $user_current_roles = ( array ) $user->roles;
    
    if (!empty($user_current_roles) && is_array($user_current_roles)) {
        foreach($user_current_roles as $role) {
            
            $user->remove_role( $role );
        }
    }

  // Add role
  $user->add_role( $role_to_assign );
}
}

Thanks & Regards

WP Experts Support Team

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by Mirza Hamza.