Returns whether a particular user has the specified capability.
Description
This function also accepts an ID of an object to check against if the capability is a meta capability. Meta capabilities such as edit_post and edit_user are capabilities used by the map_meta_cap() function to map to primitive capabilities that a user or role has, such as edit_posts and edit_others_posts.
Example usage:
user_can( $user->ID, 'edit_posts' ); user_can( $user->ID, 'edit_post', $post->ID ); user_can( $user->ID, 'edit_post_meta', $post->ID, $meta_key );Parameters
$userint|WP_Userrequired- User ID or object.
$capabilitystringrequired- Capability name.
$argsmixedoptional- Optional further parameters, typically starting with an object ID.
Source
function user_can( $user, $capability, ...$args ) { if ( ! is_object( $user ) ) { $user = get_userdata( $user ); } if ( empty( $user ) ) { // User is logged out, create anonymous user object. $user = new WP_User( 0 ); $user->init( new stdClass() ); } return $user->has_cap( $capability, ...$args ); }
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