Getting a role based on a localized role name

March 17, 20231 Views

I use the following code to get the Administrator role

$admin = get_role('administrator');

This works fine, but on a different WordPress language setup, this code breaks. For example, in French it should be

$admin = get_role('adminstrateur');

Any cross-language solution?

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Anonymous says:

March 17, 2023 at 12:15 am
Just guessing, but maybe:
```
$admin = get_role( __( 'administrator' ) );
```
If you’re trying to make sure that WP translates the string for a specific locale, __() will return the translated string. So if get_role('administrator') works and on a French setup get_role('administrateur') would work, then the above code snippet should do what you need.
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Anonymous says:

March 17, 2023 at 12:15 am
What you want to use is translate_user_role().

https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/translate_user_role/
```
$admin = get_role( 'administrator' );
$localized_name = translate_user_role( $admin->name );
```
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