theslink2000

This plugin doesn’t do anything on the surface but if you call the get_user_role() function then you can achieve one of two results.
Function
Returns the role of the specified user.
Usage
Parameters
$user_id 
(string)(optional) ‘username’
Return Values
(string) If no $user_id is specified in the function call the function will return the role of the currently logged in user, otherwise the role of the specified user will be returned.
Examples
$role = get_user_role(“admin”);
This will return “administrator”.
Notes
This plugin may call the following global variables:
$current_user 
$wp_roles 
$wpdb
This plugin is designed to work with any correctly made custom roles.

Get User Role

A simple plugin that add's the get_user_role() function to your site.

tombenner

Front-End Users is a WordPress plugin that prevents specified user roles from accessing the WordPress admin section (the pages in /wp-admin/), sets up a profile editing page on the front-end, and allows for customization of front-end user-specific pages. This allows you to hide all of the WordPress back-end from specified roles (e.g. Subscribers) and instead present to them a profile editing page (and, optionally, other user-specific pages) that have the same layout as the rest of the site. The front-end functionality is available to all roles, but you can choose which roles are able to access the WordPress admin section (by default, only Administrators have access to it).
Front-End Users also makes it easy to:
<ul>
<li>Display user-specific links that depend on the login state (e.g. “Sign in | Register”, “John | Sign out”, “John | Dashboard | Sign out”)</li>
<li>Change the URL of the profile editing page and other user-specific pages</li>
<li>Add other user-specific pages and display a menu of all of some of these pages</li>
<li>Determine whether the current user has access to the admin section</li>
</ul>
The documentation for the hooks is in <a href="http://github.com/tombenner/front-end-users/blob/master/example_hooks.php" rel="nofollow ugc">example_hooks.php</a>, and the documentation for the functions is in <a href="http://github.com/tombenner/front-end-users/blob/master/functions.php" rel="nofollow ugc">functions.php</a>.
If the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-avatar/" rel="ugc">User Avatar plugin</a> is also installed, the avatar-editing functionality it provides will be shown on the front-end user settings page.
If you’d like to grab development releases, see what new features are being added, or browse the source code please visit the <a href="http://github.com/tombenner/front-end-users" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repo</a>.

Front-End Users

Hides the WordPress admin section from specified user roles, allows users to edit their settings from the front-end, and more.

Get User Role vs Front-End Users