User role / User group field type

• mmn

• December 18, 2013 at 10:27 pm

Hi, I wonder to know if is there any quick trick to be able to list all the user groups/user roles active in my WP and allow an user to select them using a dropdown.

I noticed that using user type I can see them but are disabled.

• Elliot

• December 19, 2013 at 9:54 am

Hi @mmn

To achieve this select field, you can populate the choices dynamically following this tutorial:
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/tutorials/dynamically-populate-a-select-fields-choices/

Firstly, create a select field,
Next, add the filter code to populate the choices of the $field
Jump on google to find the WP code to get a list of all user roles
Loop through the user roles and append them to the $field[‘choices’]

Easy

Thanks
E

• mmn

• December 20, 2013 at 8:17 pm

Thanks @elliot!

Here the snippet I used, hope it can help other ppl if are doing the same thing:

add_filter('acf/load_field/name=user_groups', 'populateUserGroups');

function populateUserGroups( $field )
{	
	// reset choices
	$field['choices'] = array();
	
	global $wp_roles;
	$roles = $wp_roles->get_names();
	
	foreach ($roles as $role) {
		$field['choices'][ $role ] = $role;
	}

	return $field;
}

• poonasor

• February 20, 2021 at 3:27 am

Hey,

is there a way to limit the user roles to only custom/subscribers user roles?