Returns whether a particular user has the specified capability for a given site.
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_for_site( $user->ID, $site_id, 'edit_posts' );
user_can_for_site( $user->ID, $site_id, 'edit_post', $post->ID );
user_can_for_site( $user->ID, $site_id, 'edit_post_meta', $post->ID, $meta_key );
Parameters
$userint|WP_User
User ID or object.
$site_idint
Site ID.
$capabilitystring
Capability name.
$argsmixed
Optional further parameters, typically starting with an object ID.
1045functionuser_can_for_site($user,$site_id,$capability,...$args){1046if(!is_object($user)){1047$user=get_userdata($user);1048}10491050if(empty($user)){1051// User is logged out, create anonymous user object.1052$user=newWP_User(0);1053$user->init(newstdClass());1054}10551056// Check if the blog ID is valid.1057if(!is_numeric($site_id)||$site_id<=0){1058returnfalse;1059}10601061$switched=is_multisite()?switch_to_blog($site_id):false;10621063$can=user_can($user->ID,$capability,...$args);10641065if($switched){1066restore_current_blog();1067}10681069return$can;1070}
History
Introduced in 6.7.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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