Changing a user's role on post creation

Created by Phil Kurth, Modified on Thu, 22 Dec 2022 at 03:50 PM by Phil Kurth

If you need to change the user role of the logged in user creating a post, you may use the af/form/editing/post_created hook to run some custom logic as per the following example:

add_action( 'af/form/editing/post_created', function ( $post, $form, $args ) {

  // If we need to run this only on a specific form, check for the form key.
//  if ( $form['key'] !== 'YOUR_FORM_KEY_HERE' ) {
//    return;
//  }

  // …add any conditions or logic you need here to safeguard against unwanted user modifications…
  
  // Change the role of the post author
  wp_update_user( [
    'ID' => $post->post_author,
    'role' => 'editor'
  ] );

}, 10, 3 );