Getting a role based on a localized role name

Question

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?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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 );