Display a User's Role in profile.php and user-edit.php

[MichaelH]

The Users->Your Profile screen should display that user's current Role.

Actually, it's more important to show the user's Role in Users->Authors&Users; Edit a specific user (user-edit.php).

[davidhouse]

Covers both requirements.

[davidhouse]

Accepting and tagging as per westi's suggestions.

[MichaelH]

With the patch installed, you can change a User's Role in user-edit.php, but you are allowed to "demote" yourself from being an administrator. As mentioned in ​Ticket 1645, the User should not be able to subtract edit_users capability from themselves.

To promote a user to administrator (that should kill ringmaster P) using phpMyAdmin, change wp_metauser for the user_id:

wp_capabilites to: a:1:{s:13:"administrator";b:1;} and wp_user_level to: 10

davidhouse: your patch does more than I asked for! Thanks.

[ringmaster]

Apply this after davidhouse's patch to prevent a edit_users user from demoting himself.

[ryan]

(In [2995]) Show Role in profile and user edit. Don't allow users with edit_users caps to demote themselves. Props: davidhouse, ringmaster. fixes #1825

[ringmaster]

Oops. Need to remove some leftovers.

[ringmaster]

Some code got left in that shouldn't have. My fault.

Applying the last patch will remove code from admin-functions.php that will ensure that the user can't remove the edit-users capability from himself.

[matt]

(In [3064]) Fixes #1825 again so people can't demote themselves

[MichaelH]

Reopening because David's patch (show_role_on_profile.diff) for profile.php to show the User their current Role is no longer in the code.

[MichaelH]

just David's change to profile.php to show users their current role

[ryan]

I think Matt purposefully removed it.