Creating a role based on another

  • Hi!

    I’d like to create a new role for my plugin based on ‘editor’ but I haven’t found a function in the Codex which would allow ‘cloning’ a role. The goal is to have a new role with all capabilities an Editor has, plus some new ones for managing plugin data. I don’t want to add new capabilities to all editors. Is there a way to get all capabilities granted to a role (so I could apply them via add_cap)?

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  • Thread Starter molnarm

    (@molnarm)

    OK, I figured it out. My solution (in case someone would have the same question):

    $editor=get_role('editor');
 $newrole=add_role('newrole','New Role',$editor->capabilities);
 $newrole->add_cap('new_capability');

    These functions aren’t very well documented in the Codex so I had to figure it out from the source.

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