Title: retrieve a user role from database
Last modified: December 14, 2019

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# retrieve a user role from database

 *  [AlterBlitz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alterblitz/)
 * (@alterblitz)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieve-a-user-role-from-database/)
 * How do i retrieve a user’s role from database?

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieve-a-user-role-from-database/#post-12238301)
 * Interesting… I thought there’d be a simple function call.
 * [https://kellenmace.com/get-current-users-role-in-wordpress/](https://kellenmace.com/get-current-users-role-in-wordpress/)
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieve-a-user-role-from-database/#post-12239429)
 * Not a direct function call, but the example Steve linked to can be boiled down
   to
    `get_userdata( $user_id )->roles[0]` provided the user’s ID is assigned to
   $user_id. It’s conceivable a user is assigned more than one role by plugin action.
   The above code returns only the first role, the rest are listed in the `roles`
   property as an indexed array. `roles[1], roles[2]` etc. when so assigned.

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