alphabetically order role drop-down selection in dashboard

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The site I’m working on will have a very large number of unique user roles via a members plugin. Because of that, I’d like to have the Role drop-down selection on the Add New User page to display roles alphabetically, rather than descending order of creation.

Is there any way to do this?

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  1. Almost the same approach One Trick Pony has chosen, but I am using translated names and uasort() (to preserve the keys):

    add_filter( 'editable_roles', 't5_sort_editable_roles' );

/**
 * Array of roles.
 *
 * @wp-hook editable_roles
 * @param   array $roles
 * @return  array
 */
function t5_sort_editable_roles( $roles )
{
    uasort( $roles, 't5_uasort_editable_roles' );
    return $roles;
}
/**
 * Compare translated role names.
 *
 * @param  array $a First role
 * @param  array $b Second role
 * @return number
 */
function t5_uasort_editable_roles( $a, $b )
{
    return strcasecmp(
        translate_user_role( $a['name'] ),
        translate_user_role( $b['name'] )
    );
}

    As a plugin on GitHub.

  2. Apparently there’s a filter that you can use in the get_editable_roles function (which is called in that page):

    add_filter('editable_roles', function($roles){

  // sort alphabetically (ignores case)
  usort($roles, function($a, $b){
    return strcasecmp($a["name"], $b["name"]);
  });   

  return $roles;
});