Class DS_Role

DS_Role class
Manage user permissions, roles and other user-based functionality for development
@version 1.0
@see includes/class-ds-roles.php

Features

• Uses WP’s add_role() to add custom roles with more flexibility, using a simple string or multidimensional array
  • String:

    $test = new DS_Role('peasant');

  • Array:

    $roles = array(
        'guest' => array(
            'capabilities' => 'subscriber' # inherit role by string
        ),
        'tech' => array(
            'display_name' => Technician',
            'capabilities' => array(
                'contributor' => 1, #inherit role by array key
                'edit_themes' => 1,
                'tech_only_cap' => 1, #custom capability, added to admin automatically
            )
        ),
        'web_master' => array(
            'display_name' => 'Web Master',
            'capabilities' => 'administrator'
        ),
    );
    $my_custom_roles = new DS_Role($roles);

• Inherits previously defined roles and capabilities
• Automatically adds custom capabilities to standard “administrator” role (standard WP practice)
• Static method for removing all custom roles, see clear_roles()
• Static methods for front-end conditional statments