current_user_can_for_blog() │ WP 3.0.0

Returns whether the current user has the specified capability for a given site.

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 edit_user are capabilities used by the map_meta_cap() to map to primitive capabilities that a user or role has, such as edit_posts and edit_others_posts.

Example usage:

current_user_can_for_blog( $blog_id, 'edit_posts' );
current_user_can_for_blog( $blog_id, 'edit_post', $post->ID );
current_user_can_for_blog( $blog_id, 'edit_post_meta', $post->ID, $meta_key );

No Hooks.

Return

true|false. Whether the user has the given capability.

Usage

current_user_can_for_blog( $blog_id, $capability, ...$args );

$blog_id(int) (required)

Site ID.

$capability(string) (required)

Capability name.

...$args(mixed) (required)

Optional further parameters, typically starting with an object ID.

Changelog

current_user_can_for_blog() current user can for blog code ^{WP 6.5.2}

function current_user_can_for_blog( $blog_id, $capability, ...$args ) {
	$switched = is_multisite() ? switch_to_blog( $blog_id ) : false;

	$can = current_user_can( $capability, ...$args );

	if ( $switched ) {
		restore_current_blog();
	}

	return $can;
}