Title: set_role
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# set_role

 *  Resolved [davidspan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidspan/)
 * (@davidspan)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set_role/)
 * When I try to set role:
 * $user_id->set_role(‘contributor’);
 * I get this error:
    Fatal error: Call to a member function set_role() on a non-
   object in…
 * What am I missing?

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 *  Thread Starter [davidspan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidspan/)
 * (@davidspan)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set_role/#post-734277)
 * Ok I found problem, I was missing this
    $user_id_role = new WP_User($user_id);
 * then changed this
    $user_id_role->set_role(‘contributor’);

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 * [non object](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/non-object/)
 * [set_role](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/set_role/)

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set_role/#post-734277)
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